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The Optimist Wins 



Employment 
of the Millions 


100 Years of 

National Prosperity 


M. F. KNOX 









Contents 


Page 


Introduction and Dedication . 7 

Efficiency . 11 

Education . 14 

Statement of Facts . 17 

Why Prosecute the Railroad Officials?. 27 

Constitution on Money—Bond Refunding. 29 

Why Prosecute the Bank Officials?. 37 

American Money . 39 

Legal Tender Decision by the Supreme Court of 

United States . 41 

Authorities on Money . 47 

Laws Issuing Money . 49 

Who Will I Thank? . 54 

Mothers’ Homes to be Free From All Taxes. 59 

Secret Session of Church and State Before the 

Present Era . TO 

The Law of Entail Devouring All Europe. 88 

Railroad Oppression . 100 

The People’s Congress of the United States in 

Session . 112 

The Issuing of $2,000,000,000 of Legal 
Tender Money. 


The Employment of Every Unemployed 
Man and Woman in the Nation Under the 


Direction of Military Regulations. 

Improvement of the Mississippi Valley. 122 

Coast Patrol by Warships. 132 

The New Financial Centers of the World Will be 

Chicago and New Orleans . 136 
























Introduction and Dedication 


To know is the object and the purpose of all 
who read. This book is written for all persons 
who want to better their conditions and surround¬ 
ings. It fully explains how all the people of the 
United States can all be prosperous in every line 
'of business, and all laborers fully employed and 
well paid. It provides for the immediate inaugur¬ 
ation of the greatest era of prosperity ever en¬ 
joyed by any Nation or people ever upon the 
earth; which will last for the coming century. 
Every locality in the entire Nation is to be im¬ 
proved and all improvements are to be for the 
benefit of the whole people of the Nation. 

Suggestions to all readers of this book who 
desire to be one of the persons who is to be more 
prosperous than he has ever dreamed of enjoying 
before this time. 

Read every article twice over through the en¬ 
tire book before you have decided what you are 
going to do in this new era of prosperity to make 
it for your personal benefit. The author is now 
fully satisfied that every one who reads these arti¬ 
cles will want to be a participant in his or her 
portion of these benefits that will be for every 
person who is willing to be benefitted. There is 
not a human being upon the earth who will ob¬ 
ject to receiving anything that will aid him in un¬ 
derstanding how he may surround himself with 
better environments, better home and a more pros¬ 
perous business. This is the intent, purpose and 






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the earnest desire that has prompted the publish¬ 
ing of this book. 

There are some entirely new features in the 
plan, but nothing new in the science or the practi¬ 
cability of all that is required to make the plan 
operative. It is positively and distinctly a care¬ 
fully prepared plan of operations on a gigantic 
scale for a national industrial improvement of the 
natural resources of the United States of Amer¬ 
ica. 

It is pure optimism in actual operation, and. 
the results are for all who will partake of its 
over-flowing abundance, which has ever been in 
waiting for man’s higher unfoldment to realize his 
own valuation and worth, and that he is just what 
he thinks into form and use for his greater hap¬ 
piness . 

This book is the key for the music of a new 
civilization which this people are now formulating 
as we are now passing out of the old race dispen¬ 
sation, which has filled the earth with tramps, 
beggars, Want, worry and homeless mothers and 
orphan children, through war, carnage and death, 
through all the past ages by educating all peo¬ 
ples in the non-accumulations of all things that 
are for man’s use and enj oyment here and now. 

I will gladly accept any and all comments 
from each and every 'reader of this book and what¬ 
ever you wish to say about it and I will keep them 
as guide-stakes to be used in my forthcoming book 
which I have been formulating since a mere child 
alone in the forest of my early childhood days, in 
Illinois, in its primitive settlements, which will fur¬ 
nish the play of the twentieth century, for the 
jubilee of the emancipation of the government of 
the United States from all entangling alliances 


ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 

with the European systems of debt-devouring and 
war disintegrating theories and practices, by the 
establishing of the world’s peace of nations,. 

I now dedicate this book to the freedom of 
mother and child from her bondage of the ages, 
a homeless wanderer in her own country, to pos¬ 
sess a home and comforts free from all taxation 
throughout all this land of endless possibilities. 

—The Author. 


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Efficiency 


It Is the one quality that must be used by 
every one who is a prize winner. 

It was the efficiency of Emanuel Sweeden- 
hurg in mechanical construction that saved him 
from a felon’s cell or an ignominious governmental 
crucifixion for his religious teachings. 

It was purely mental optimism that guided 
Joan d ’Arc in her so successfully placing a pessi¬ 
mistic king on the throne. 

It was the pessimistic church inefficiency that 
compelled Novila to lecture behind curtains on the 
Cannon laws. 

Thomas A. Edison, universally acknowledged 
as the leading efficient" optimist of this or any 
other age, has acquired hiis most wonderfully ac¬ 
cumulated powers, by his proficiency in detail con¬ 
struction. 

All the optimistic persons in theory only, have 
and will fail, in their desired attainments until 
they become efficient mental constructors. 

The winners in every vocation yet to be dis¬ 
covered, as well as all those known to the race of 
man, are attained by those who see them in the 
unseen, and are able to bring them into the seen 
in useful form. 

George Washington’s unbounded optimism 
was ever supported by his exceptional efficiency 
in the use he made by handling in detail the 
finances of the people as well as those of his own. 


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It is this one power of exceptional efficiency 
that J. J. Hill continually exercises, that has made 
him the greatest railroad man of this age. 

Aspatia, the historic teacher and lawyer of 
Athens in Ancient Greece, can be cited as one of 
the very few who operated the law of optimism, 
and in the face of all opposition won the most 
coveted prize of that then the center of philosophy 
and education, the position as the trainer of the 
greatest lawyers and' orators of ancient times. 

Hypatia is the unequalled expression of the 
oneneisis of all things within the individual who 
stands out as the ever-enduring blossom of all 
Egypt, having occupied the chair as instructor of 
law and mathematics for over forty years in the 
Neo-Platoinic school of Alexandria, She was as 
youthful at sixty as she was at sixteen. She was 
proving her science of perpetual youth in the 
body when assassinated by pessimistic religious 
fanatics for teaching the oneness in mind and 
body. 

Abraham Lincoln’s unshaken optimism in the 
people of the United States being capable of self- 
government, was fully exemplified when he signed 
the bill making the “greenback” a full legal ten¬ 
der money. This was his greatest official act. The 
passage of that bill by that Republican congress 
who passed it, was the only Congress that ever 
assembled to represent all the people of this Nat¬ 
ion who did pass a bill to immediately relieve a 
sorely oppressed people. What is wanted now is 
an efficient Congress to represent all the people 
which will issue money immediately for all the 
people and relieve this debt cursed mortgaged and 


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bonded Nation of a once free people. It is only 
another efficient Congress and President in the 
interest of all the people who will win in 1916. 

The only congressmen, senators and President 
who will enact a law and sign it for all the people, 
will be those who are efficient in understanding 
and proficient in action. 


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Education 


It is so easy for the man or woman to learn 
to be an efficient member of society. The act£ 
that make some one person of so much value to 
themselves and the world' are our true educators. 

There is no record kept of the millions of hu¬ 
man beings who are educated continually in the 
impractical things we are not able to use in our 
every-day life work. 

The teachings of race beliefs has made the 
untold millions of earnest and honest human be¬ 
ings unfit for members of a society for the build¬ 
ing and maintaining of a free government. 

To know and understand is efficiency. 

To be able to construct and accumulate show T s 
your understanding of the law of growth. 

Excuses only prove the inefficiency of your 
education. 

Poverty proves that the law of addition was 
not understood in your educational training. 

It is only wisdom to educate yourself to be 
an efficient woman or man. 

It is so much easier to learn to be efficient 
than to study and try to understand the inefficient. 

In the education of the race the student’s time 
is continually occupied with failures of those 
in want, while the schools that bring out the 
learner’s own unexpressed desires only keep in 
view the efficiency of the building force within 
man, 


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Precedent is a clog in the wheel of progress 
when it has: already been tried and found want¬ 
ing. • 

The tie that binds the people of a Nation 
into one inseparable union are the acts in an effi¬ 
cient government. 

All thoughts that will build and add to our 
greater enjoyment will be of practical use in illus¬ 
trating the efficiency of any system of education. 

The guide for all students in attaining his or 
her objects of life is to strive continually to al¬ 
ways, be proficient in all he or she does. 

Every time a beggar is) fed without return¬ 
ing an equivalent, he or she is encouraged to con¬ 
tinue his vocation of begging. 

When we express sympathy for those in want, 
we attract want into our own affairs in business or 
health. 

The thinkers are all asking, What is an opti¬ 
mist ? 

It is the every-day expression of all the suc¬ 
cessful women and’ men in this day of practical 
'things. 

It is the harmonic sounds vibrating in unison 
from the plasmic cell or center to the organized 
body forms and varieties of all cell life. 

The efficiency of all thought expressed is found 
in the understanding of true value. 

The unemployed in all walks of life only re¬ 
cords the actual results of the impractical under¬ 
standing in educating in the inefficient. 

Failure is the product or amount each iiidi- 
vidual has directly received as their portion ac¬ 
curately acounted’ for in society’s non-accumula- 
tive system of expenditure. 

The law of supply and demand is always eqaul, 


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This is the basis for the statement that the mathe¬ 
matical optimist is always correct, while the pes¬ 
simistic teaching is failure. 

The Chinese Sage gave the law when he said, 
‘'A house divided against itself cannot stand.” 

Abraham Lincoln reaffirmed the law in gov¬ 
ernment when he said, “A Nation cannot stand 
half free and half slave.” 

I here say that the increasing of debts in 
America is the only cause for the unemployed in 
our Nation. The insufficiency of legal tender 
money is the only cause for any and all debts. The 
government of the United’ States has guaranteed 
the payment of billions! upon billions of debts said 
to be payable in gold coin, with less than one dol¬ 
lar in gold to pay a thousand dollars in debts. 


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Statement of Fads 


The reader of these pages has no time to de¬ 
vote to any subject that when it is matured leaves 
him or her without a just reward. 

It is the person who has already an unexpressed 
or an immature thought which he or she has never 
mentioned to any other living person who is earn¬ 
estly and ever desirous of winning a substantial 
and a lasting success by careful and’ pains-taking 
analysis of all he reads. 

Every reader’s own thoughts are hiis: soil, his 
seed, his plants and his matured fruit. 

In every person’s own individual thoughts 
are always stored all the acquired results he or 
she has so earnestly been hoping would be in his 
full possession some bright, cheerful, sun-shiny 
day. 

Values accumulate each recurring time a 
reader has cause to think of the vast wealth he 
will receive when his most cherished thought of 
all his thought ideals has been fully matured; and 
his ever-increasing accumulations are the millions 
who are also thinking, building and growing use¬ 
ful things each for himself and herself will want 
to purchase and possess your so wisely constructed 
and already matured product, to aid them each 
one, in the maturing of their yet uncompleted 
productions. 

No happiness is so valuable to any living per¬ 
son as a just and equitable compensation for his 
or her own matured thought. 


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All values that are worth your or my earnest 
effort in any field of production are only such 
maturing rewards as those when won will add con¬ 
tinuously to our increasing enjoyment. 

To read, to find out what the writer has to 
say upon any given subject or theme, will not give 
a return to the peruser the best results for his 
or her time given to any book or periodical. 

The author of any article or series of articles 
must make clear a central thought or object to be 
obtained to induce any reader to think while he 
reads the author’s written or printed manuscript 
or book. 

The foregoing statement of facts being true, I 
now proceed to make clear the one paramount is¬ 
sue to be reached by all persons who will read this 
series of articles and each think for himself and 
herself as they each read. 

My first and highest point of attainment to 
be reached by the printing of these pages is to 
remove from the statutes of the United States that 
law therein which forced the people of this Gov¬ 
ernment into debts amounting to billions of dol¬ 
lars which they are compelled to pay without ever 
receiving an equivalent. There being no reason in 
equity or justice for such a statutory provision. 

All other questions herein treated are subor¬ 
dinate and depend wholly upon the people of these 
United States (who are the Government) having 
a sufficient amount of money issued direct to the 
people themselves without the intervention of any 
banking corporation either domestic or foreign. 

The unemployed men and women in this nat- 
tion (as well as all nations upon the earth) are 
the result of the financial legislation of each gov¬ 
ernment. Thus, the reader will soon see that the 


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only permanent remedy for this uncalled-for con¬ 
dition of society is to establish a new and inde¬ 
pendent system of issuing our own money. This 
new system when adopted will immediately stop 
our Government from going into debt and paying 
interest to corporations or individuals: for the use 
of the Government’s own individual credit by 
statute only, for money to pay interest money. 

What Congress must first do is to pass a law 
for the issuing of at least $2,000,000,000 in cur¬ 
rency (paper money) in small denominations, this 
money to be a full legel tender for the payment 
of all debts: both public and private. It will then 
be the duty of this Government to at once begin 
a system of national improvements, by building 
roads, irrigation dams and canals, and the im¬ 
proving of the numerous rivers and harbors of 
the United States yet untouched, and pay this 
United States money out for these permanent im¬ 
provements. This will furnish legitimate employ¬ 
ment for all the unemployed citizens of this: Nat¬ 
ion. The 63d Congress of 1913 will be known as 
the Wilson Congress, and it voted to build a Gov¬ 
ernment railroad in Alaska, the sum of $35,000,- 
000 is to be expended, but why the so-long delay? 
Do you know, reader: I will tell you why they 
are so slow. The United States again has no 
money of its own and President Wilson’s special 
tax without any war is blocking all business. 
When the bill was passed by Congress it should 
have provided for the issue of $35,000,000 of legal 
tender money to pay for the construction and 
equipment of the road and there could have been 
thousands of unemployed amply provided for now. 

Our Congress under President Roosevelt’s 
administration inaugurated and made it possible to 


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build the Panama Canal and also completed some 
of the most substantial and valuable irrigation 
systems in the United States ever constructed in 
the world. 

The only mistake made by Congress then was 
that for all these New Improvements there should 
have been a new issue of United States money, a 
full legal tender, to pay for all new permanent 
improvements. But instead of paying cash the 
people of this Nation owe for all these improve¬ 
ments and bonds have been sold in Europe to pay 
for our improvements after the United States has 
done the work and furnished all the material that 
was used in their construction. The reader is soon 
to learn that the United States is amply able to 
pay cash for all her improvements instead of be¬ 
ing in debt to corporations or individuals for every 
stroke of labor performed by all this industrious 
and ever willing people to grow and expand that 
all her people may be better provided for than 
the people were in the past ages. No man or wo¬ 
man should ever be idle in the United States for 
the want of money to pay legitimate wages. 

Reader, let’isi you and I think this over. A 
man is building him a house which he has actual 
use for, and after he has his house completed, hav¬ 
ing performed all the labor himself and owned all 
the material that was used in the entire building, 
he having no money is compelled by law to mort¬ 
gage or bond the building for the cost of material 
and labor performed, to some corporation who 
has been given control by Congress of all the 
money to be used by all the people of this entire 
Nation. (I have just taken a man for example 
here in place of this Nation to illustrate the pres¬ 
ent proceedure of the present monetary laws of 


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this Nation.) 8 When the reader understands that 
this Government is paying for no improvements 
but is borrowing her own issued money and pay¬ 
ing an interest to individuals and corporations for 
all this money she is putting into all the improve¬ 
ments that we are making or the Government is 
compelling the people through high taxes (tariffs) 
to bond and mortgage individuals, corporations, 
municipalities, counties and school districts, which 
is exactly the same thing as though the Govern¬ 
ment issued its bonds: and mortgages direct and 
the corporations furnished the money to purchase 
these Government bonds which the Congress has 
voted into the corporations’ possession. This is 
to make clear to any one who readis: how all these 
billions of dollars we now owe to European people 
came to be issued, is the miost salient point to be 
understood. When this is explained fully the read¬ 
er will see why it is that there are millions out of 
employment. 

The reader is soon to learn that the Govern¬ 
ment of the United States has not been issuing 
money. All she has 'been doing since 1864 is to 
go in debt and borrow money, and increase the 
taxes on the people to pay the interest upon the 
debts Congress has voted upon the people as a 
Nation. Let me make this point clear so you will 
not make a mistake in your final conclusion for 
yourself. This is what I mean. The results of 
the law which was placed upon the United States’ 
statutes by Congressional enactment when it de¬ 
clared that the United States Government (again 
it means all the people) all the people will pay 
all their debts in gold coin. Since that law went 
into effect, the people having no gold coin of their 
own have issued their notes, mortgages and bonds 


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Galling for billions of dollars in gold coin which 
the United States has guaranteed to all the world, 
citizens and foreigners alike, that they will be paid 
in gold coin. 

As the law now stands upon the statutes of 
the United States all the debts issued by every in¬ 
dividual, corporation, municipality, county, dis¬ 
trict, school, State and Nation and isiold to Euro¬ 
pean people was authorized by this act of the 
Government and the people as a Nation are held 
responsible for the payment of all these debts in 
gold coin. This same act compelled all individuals 
and corporations in the Nation who make improve¬ 
ments and transact business to go into debt di¬ 
rectly or indirectly. The law of this Government 
is the act of the people and the holders of all con¬ 
tract debts, notes, mortgages, bonds or other obli¬ 
gations calling for gold coin as payment or satis¬ 
faction of a debt is valid and the United States is 
by its own law compelled to pay these debts in gold 
coin. Such quantities of gold never was in ex¬ 
istence—not gold enough to pay one-fourth the in¬ 
terest now due, and not enough to pay one-tenth 
of the taxes: assessed against the American people 
annually. It follows that every year the people 
are forced by this same law to contract more debts 
to pay the interest upon the debts already entered 
into. 

This all-absorbing and never-satisfied fiction 
law must be removed from our statutes before we 
have been compelled to create such a debt that it 
never can be paid. 

The blind Congress leading a blind people are 
all tumbling into the ditch (debt )together. All 
business today in the United States is done on 
credit for the sole reason that the people have no 

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money and all are in debt under this law. All 
that is left for the people to do is to vote more 
debts, as the people when they adopted the Consti¬ 
tution of the United States ceded all their rights 
to issue money. to the United States Government, 
and the only possible way for the people to have 
money of their own is to elect a Congress who will 
do what the Constitution plainly says they shall 
do which words are as plain as the nose on the 
reader’s own face, which are “To coin money and 
regulate the value thereof.” There is only the one 
thing for the people to do and that is to at once 
institute a new system of money to prevent a finan¬ 
cial collapse of our business and industries of our 
entire Nation. 

The skeptic will ask, Who' will take this money 
which is not based on gold? I answer, all the 
100,000,000 of intelligent American people will use 
their own money for they are the only power who 
can issue money for their own use. No power on 
earth can make a legal tender money for the peo¬ 
ple of the United States except the people them¬ 
selves through their lawfully elected and consti¬ 
tuted Congress. This money will be a people’s 
money and not a fictitious scrip issued by the 
United States Government to corporations upon 
the debts of the people of these United States as 
it is today. The intelligent American citizen will 
always be a law-abiding citizen. The perpetuity 
of this Union of the United States depends wholly 
upon the consent of the governed; that is, the will 
of the majority is all that constitutes the control 
in this Republic. This people make their own laws. 
They execute their own laws and whenever a law 
in operation fails to secure the people in their in¬ 
herent right it is in the full power of this people 


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to alter or change their laws at any time that the 
law proves to be inadequate for the needs and use 
of the people of this Nation. 

The people of the United States have been 
called upon to change their Constitution from time 
to time. The Constitution when adopted contained 
statute laws permitting men to hold human beings 
as chattel slaves. The people changed that law. 
In many of our States the people have been chang¬ 
ing their laws. To illustrate, in a number of the 
States women now vote at all elections. Also the 
people are changing the laws upon the use of 
whiskey and saloons. The majority in all these 
cases control. I am satisfied that two-thirds of the 
American people are ready to vote for this Gov¬ 
ernment to own its own money, now. The people 
of the United States at the coming election are go¬ 
ing to change that law that has given the control 
of all our money into the hands of a few corpor¬ 
ations, and take full and complete charge of their 
own money, by issuing it direct to the people and 
in sufficient amounts to make all our exchanges 
and forever prohibit the creation of any more 
bonded indebtedness to be sold to European people 
to absorb all our wheat, cotton and all other prod¬ 
ucts of this vast country, by the present gold basis 
now copied from the pagan nations of the departed 
ages which was the direct cause for their failure. 

It is now up to each voter of this Nation to 
decide for himself and herself whether he or she 
is going to vote more debts or going to vote for 
money to do the legitimate business of this coun¬ 
try to be issued direct to the people. 

The skeptic here interjects another question: 
“How will the people get this money when it is 
issued V’ I answer, by the Government paying out 


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this money for permanent improvements—by re¬ 
ceiving it back for all taxes and debts due the 
Government. Is that not simple enough for the 
average citizen to readily comprehend? 

The reader is to understand this money ques¬ 
tion is 1 not a party issue. It is wholly a question 
of mathematics to be used in the interest of the 
people as a Nation and not against the people and 
Nation in favor of corporations which are only 
creatures of the law of this Nation. These cor¬ 
porations have used their incorporated authority 
to enrich the people of Europe by selling the in¬ 
debtedness of the people of the United States to 
them for the past fifty years, because the people 
of thiisi Nation had no money of their own. During 
the last half century the debts of the United States 
have continually increased while the people of this 
Nation have produced all that it has taken to keep 
them in an abundance and a surplus sufficient to 
care for as many more people in Europe. 

The reader is now to learn that all the prod¬ 
ucts we ship out of this United States to European 
people is scarcely sufficient to pay the interest the 
American people now owe on their already created 
debts now in the hands of the people of Europe, 
and you are to learn that no difference how much 
is produced in this country as long as this old sys¬ 
tem of money is upon our statutes we will have to 
continually increase our debts until this Govern¬ 
ment through its Congress passes a law requiring 
the issue of money direct to the people of the 
United States sufficient to transact their own busi¬ 
ness in cash. As soon as the Government pays I 
cash for all business carried on by the Nation, then 
it follows that the States can pay cash. When the 
Nation and the States are paying cash, then all 

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other subdivisions of Government can and will be 
able to pay cash. This will soon relieve the cor¬ 
poration and' the individuals who are in business 
from debts, the curse of all business. 

When we have attained this intelligent and 
true understanding that money in its concrete form 
is only a tool to be used in the transaction of all 
business, and the manufacturers of this tool 
(money) belongs! exclusively to the Government 
and that when the Nation through its law-enacting 
Congress does not manufacture its own money, that 
the people are then immediately forced to go in 
debt for they must have this tool (money) for the 
law requires them to possess it or fail. So all fail¬ 
ures are for the want of money. All the unem¬ 
ployed are for the want of money. All debts are 
entered into for the want of cash—money. 




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Why Prosecute the Railroad 
Officials? 


It is one of the least called for acts of this 
Government of the United States to be continually 
lawing the railroad officers of many of the trans¬ 
portation companies of this country. It shows one 
of two things, either that the law enacted by the 
Government was so illogically prepared by Gov¬ 
ernment officials as to only admit of thieves and 
law-breakers running a railroad or that the law is 
so unjust to the corporations that the officers of 
railroads have to evade the law to be able to keep 
their roads running. I am not going to decide 
which horn of this dilemma we are in as a Nat- 
tion, but Will say that all these trials in the dif¬ 
ferent courts are becoming a mockery upon our 
intelligence aisi a people. We cannot exist as a 
commercial people without some method or sys¬ 
tem for the transportation of the products of our 
people. Are we to admit that there is no set of 
men who are able to draw up a law in a plain, 
simple and comprehensive language, easily under¬ 
stood, so that a large proportion of the company’s 
earnings will not have to be usied defending the 
so-numerous and most unreasonable lawsuits they 
are continually having to defend themselves 
against in. the various courts of the Nation? 

There are thousands of people that think if 
they can beat a railroad company out of some¬ 
thing or anything they are doing themselves and 
the people a great favor. I have been asked, 


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“Where do the people get such an idea from?” I 
answer most emphatically, it is from the actions of 
the Government. Any half-witted savage would 
answer that question. The daily and weekly press 
of the Nation has printed sacreheads and printed 
full columns for years of such news itemsi as the 
Government’s arrest of some corporation officer 
for some alleged illegal act, so that the people 
who do not investigate any farther think that all 
people connected with a railroad are only a set 
of land pirates, and that when there is a complaint 
filed against a railroad company, that every man 
and woman who works in their employ are all in¬ 
terested in the spoils of these corporations. This 
being the case, the people convict the 'railroad com¬ 
pany without ever hearing any of the evidence. 
Judges are convinced through the public press and 
former decisions that every complaint against a 
railroad officer or the company is the truth and 
the evidence in hundreds of cases is never listened 
to by the jury in many Courts because the rail¬ 
roads are convicted before the trial comes to an 
issue and that seventy-five per cent, of all judg¬ 
ments rendered against the companies are for ex¬ 
cessive and unjustifiable damages. The readers of 
this book are those who are seeking better condi¬ 
tions for themselves and you will each learn when 
♦you have read the full contents of this book why 
I say these things before you read the full expla¬ 
nation that I am required to give to make clear 
the conditions we are in as a people, and the rem¬ 
edies therefor. 


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Constitution on Money — Bond Funding 


On the way to better conditions spurs the 
earnest, optimistic woman or man to be honest 
and sincere to himself or herself at all times. 

The choicest blooms in our flower gardens are 
upon the central stems of the most healthy and 
thrifty plants. 

Upon a close and minute examination of all 
things I find that the choicest of every variety in 
all forms of life are those where the environments 
were such that its growth was the least hampered 
by detracting influences. 

Human beings, societies/ and governments are 
only a growth and come within the same identical 
law that does that of plant and animal life. 

The most cherished thoughts ever expressed 
by the optimist were those thought ideals when 
realized would bring to the individual who thought 
them a greater happiness. 

The optimist that always wins is the one who 
studies only to win. 

The winners in all forms of endeavor, thinks, 
reasons and does all things better each time he or 
she repeats the process of concrete formative build¬ 
ing. 

I find this to be true in all growth that the 
value of all productions depends for their stabil¬ 
ity and usefulness on the thing produced and I 
have come to this one conclusion that I am grow¬ 
ing rapidly into a greater usefulness while think¬ 
ing and arranging these words, phrases and sen¬ 
tences to build this article so it will aid the reader 


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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


to arrange his or her thought ideals- through his 
or her own mental concepts to build a more and 
greater useful life structure. 

I here state I am not writing these articles 
telling any reader the thing to do, but to give him 
a positive assurance that he or she has all the ma¬ 
terial at hand to build themselves each into an 
optomist far more lasting and valuable than the 
most advanced ideas ever thought by anyone yet 
upon the earth. To make this clear and so under¬ 
standable that no one can mistake my purpose I 
again write as follows, in statement form: 

No girl or woman who has yet lived and objec¬ 
tified possesed the beauty that the 20th century 
beauty optimist is now forming. 

No flower has yet come into form that can 
equal the optimistic flower growers’ productions 
of the present day. 

No orators of antiquity can be compared to 
the true orator of today who knows that he or she 
is an orator. 

No cities were ever so convenient and useful 
as the ones now building. 

No wealthy man or woman in all ages was ever 
so truly wealthy as the accumulators of our pres¬ 
ent age. 

No inventions of ancient or modern times ever 
equalled the mechanisms of this present civiliza¬ 
tion. 

No people of any government in all the ages 
were so capable of self-government as the people 
of this generation. It is the self-governing only 
who are fitted to conduct the affairs of any peo¬ 
ple’s representative government. 

No government of this present civilization is 
so capable of paying its so-long unjust and intol- 


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EMPLOYMENT OF THE MILLIONS 


erable burdens of hundreds of billions of accumu¬ 
lated bonded debts as the United States of Amer¬ 
ica. 

It is my one purpose in the preparation of 
these pages to show how all bonded debts can be 
paid and the taxes of all our people be reduced to 
less than one-half what they are now. When the 
United States has paid up in full all the indebted¬ 
ness of her peoples, she then will become the fi¬ 
nancial center of the world, which is the apex in 
government and the only safe guard for her per¬ 
manent freedom. 

It has been a slow but steady growth in gov¬ 
ernment assistance to individual betterment yet it 
has achieved many great improvements in life’s 
varied pursuits for temporary existence. Accu- 
racy in government itself in its concrete working 
formulas has not been understood mathemtically in 
its fundamental reckoning to insure government 
permanency. On the failure of the ruling power 
in governmental affairs carries with these official 
failures all individuals, corporations, political part¬ 
ies, religions and societies of every name and char¬ 
acter, which derive their authority to exist from 
the government as all are under the direct control 
of the central government. 

Thus, it follows naturally that when the Gov¬ 
ernment itself becomes a financial borrower it will 
compel all business enterprises requiring money 
for the transaction of business to become borrow¬ 
ers, and it invariably follows that all citizens of 
the Government are lawfully forced to the humil¬ 
iating condition to go out in search for money to 
borrow. I have been asked why is this so? I 
answer this question in clear, simple and easily 
understood language: first, it has for all times been 
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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


the teaching of Government; second, it is the rule 
that the citizen will vote as he or she has been 
taught; then it follows that the voters have been 
voting for this Nation to continue to be a bor¬ 
rower by sending to Congress only such men as 
will refuse to issue money, consequently our Con¬ 
gress has ever been increasing the debts of the 
citizens and the Nation. All money is national, 
therefore all debts are national, for debts can only 
be legally made .and paid by nationally issued le¬ 
gal tender money. 

Questioner asks: Why do you say that the 
Government teaches debt and borrowing. I an¬ 
swer that your question is clearly and definitely 
answered in the Constitution of the United States 
in Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 1: The Congress 
shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, 
imports and excises, to pay the debts. This is the 
first constitutional provision on how the Govern¬ 
ment is to raise money to liquidate its debts. 

Paragraph 2, of Section 8 readlsi: “To borrow 
money on the credit of the United States.” 

I here say that the teachings of all govern¬ 
ments have been to go in debt, then organize an 
army and plunder some other nation or borrow 
money to pay their debts, then at once go into debt 
again, then their teaching is the same to go and 
borrow and pay the debt to one party and owe it 
to another and then proceed at once to go into 
debt again, thus it is a continuous increase of debts 
and an increase of taxes until the government fails, 
as fail it must under such a financial system. 

The foregoing provisions of our Constitution 
have been literally followed by Congress since its 
adoption until our nation like all nations are all 
mortgaged and bonded. All nations follow this 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 

same identical debt, mortgage and bonding law. 
Thus I have shown you the uniform teaching in 
all nations to all peoples of the past centuries as 
well as our present age. I now proceed to again 
quote to you Paragraph 5, of Section 8, Article I, 
of our Constitution on the coinage of money, ms 
follows: “To coin money and regulate the value 
thereof.” Is not Paragraph 5, Section 8 in Article 
1. which I have just quoted as much a duty that 
Congress is charged with as Paragraphs 1 and 2 
in Article I of the same section? 

I here give the exact language of the Con¬ 
stitution on money in Section 10, Paragraph 1, of 
Article I, which says: “No State shall coin money; 
emit bills of credit; make anything but gold' and 
silver coin a tender in the payment of debts,” 
Thus, the student will find that under our Consti¬ 
tution there is no power on earth that can issue 
money for the people of this Government but Con¬ 
gress. A questioner asks, Why hasi not Congress 
been issuing money instead of increasing taxes and 
the issuing of bonds to borrow the money to pay 
the debts? I answer again that all the political 
party teachings have been to make debts, then is¬ 
sue more bonds to draw more interest and borrow 
more money creating another necessity for another 
increase of taxes to pay increased interest obliga¬ 
tions. The reader has now before him all there is 
in the Constitution of the United States upon the 
money question. I now say to you as a thinker 
that the power that can legally make a debt has 
the full power to make legal money to pay its le¬ 
gal debts by this Constitution or else we have no 
Constitution. Bill Spooks asks me this question: 
What will be the security for this money you pro¬ 
pose to issue ? Answer: All the security any money 


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lias or ever had is the law, for money m only law. 
Money is only secure as long as the Government 
is solvent and when the Government becomes bank¬ 
rupt it ceases to be a Government; therefore, it 
has no law, neither will it have any legal tender 
money. It is the Bill Spooks’ organization that 
has furnished the teachings that has caused the 
downfall of all nations upon the earth. History 
is complete in its recital of all nations that have 
gone down—each one in its turn kept going in 
debt until the tax burden became so heavy that 
all producers were robbed of even a share of its 
earnings and money was so scarce that the ex¬ 
cessive taxes could not be paid. Then the nations 
repudiated their debts. Rebellions and continuous 
wars followed for the lack of money, causing the 
downfall of all nations. It is the scarcity of money 
in Europe and execessive taxation that has caused 
the wholesale slaughter of the people and prop¬ 
erty of the greatest nations of Europe today. The 
industry, frugality and ceaseless toil in all walks 
of life are being swept away by the shot, shell and 
torch by the invading army so as to subdue and 
conquer, that the victorious nations may under 
the rules of war, plunder, rob and possess what the 
conquered nations have accumulated so that the 
victorious nations may possess money enough to 
pay the interest upon their burdensome debts ac¬ 
quired in times of national peace. What an ap¬ 
palling mockery in the name of religion and mod¬ 
ern civilization! What a belittling of so much 
boasted improvement over the pagan nations of 
twenty-five centuries ago. I here ask myself, will 
the citizens of the United States asi free voters, con¬ 
tinue to do just as the so-called pagan nation and 
the now pretending Christian nations of Europe 


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Employment of the millions 

have done through the scarcity of a circulating 
money, always followed by an ever-increasing 
taxes—plunge themselves all into bonded debts so 
large that it was impossible to pay the accruing in¬ 
terest, so they have done just as the pagan nations 
had always done before them, which was to declare 
war on their neighbors! that they may under the 
terms of nations plunder and rob the vanquished. 
The United States is today administered under her 
financial legislation by the same system of money 
that was used in China, Ancient Greece ; Egypt, 
Babylon and Rome, and each of these nations per¬ 
ished through the creating of a bonded debt, which 
never was paid, but repudiated rather than to is¬ 
sue money and pay their debts. The creditors de¬ 
clared war for the collection of debts, which was 
an utter impossibility and the debtors to defend 
their homes and property fought till their property 
was all destroyed, while both debtor and creditor 
perished on the siame battlefield and their families 
became wanderers to foreign countries or became 
tramps and beggars in their own country. It is no 
wonder to me when I read the farewell address of 
President Washington to the people on retiring 
from office when he said: “Would to God that 
there was a wall of fire surrounding the United 
States from all other nations through which no 
ship could pass.” He saw the same devouring 
monetary system coming to the land of the free to 
enslave its people as had been the rule of all nat¬ 
ions preceding him. No wonder then that Thaddeus 
Stevens in the Congress of the United States said, 
when they put the exception on the greenback that 
Congress had made only money for the creditor and 
only more taxes, debts, and bonds on the debtors. 

Read what this man said at that time: 


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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


Vice-President’s Chamber, Washington, D. C., December 

13, 1867. 

Yours of the 8th inst. is received, and I most cor¬ 
dially agree with every word and sentence of it. I am 
for the laboring portion of our people. The rich can 
take care of themselves. While I must scrupulously 
live up to all the contracts of the Government, and 
fight repudiation to the death, I will fight the bond 
holder as resolutely when he undertakes to get more 
than the pound of flesh. We never agreed to pay the 
5-2Os in gold. No man can find it in the bond, and I 
never will consent to have one payment for the bond 
holder and another for the people. It would sink any 
party and it ought to. To talk of specie payments or 
a return to specie under present circumstances, is to 
talk like a fool. It would destroy the country as ef¬ 
fectually as a fire, and any contraction of the currency 
at this time is about as bad. But I have not time to 
give my ideas in full. Yours truly, Benjamin F. Waid, 
to Captain A. Denny, Eaton, Ohio. 





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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 

Why Prosecute the Bank Officers? 

When the Government is the direct cause of 
the failure of every bank in the United States of 
America since its passage of the first statute es¬ 
tablishing a rule for the conducting of a bank¬ 
ing business. 

There are hundreds of bank officers who have 
been sent to jail for following a law made by the 
Government. Hundreds of bankers do not know 
that they by following the strict letter of the Na¬ 
tional banking laws and in the course of time every 
officer who is in charge of the affairs of a bank is 
on his way to the penitentiary if he follows all the 
provisions of that law. 

It is the banking laws of the United States, 
that have made more criminals than all other sys¬ 
tems combined. 

The banking laws are not under a general dis¬ 
cussion in this series of articles, but are used to 
illustrate the cause of why we as a Nation and a 
people owe billions of dollars calling for gold coin 
in payment of contracts which the bankers never 
had, neither are they able to secure such quanti¬ 
ties of gold coin which is only the deception and 
the plain facts that show the fountain-head for 
the so-called frauds in the manipulation by bank¬ 
ing combines, classed as trusts, so when you are 
reading the following pages do not do as the peo¬ 
ple have done in the case of the railroad corpor¬ 
ation, convict all bank officers and all clerks and 
employees who work in banks as being sharehold¬ 
ers in all the funds that the people have been 
filched out of through the banking laws made by 
Congress. 

In ninety-five cases out of every one hundred 
bank failures, the officers in charge of the bank 
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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


were honest and' sincere, and I will say that to be 
just in this class of cases if there is a necessity 
for any one going to jail, it is the duty of the 
Courts to immediately sign petitions for the re¬ 
prieve of the inmates in the penitentiaries for bank 
failures and bring the congressmen, senators and 
the executive officers of the Government into court 
to show cause why they should not serve the same 
length of time in the penitentiary for making such 
laws or permitting them to remain on the statute 
books of this Nation. It would not be difficult to 
find a jury that would send Congress to jail and 
liberate the convicted bankers. The first plea of 
all governmental officials will be that they were 
ignorant of the true facts in the working of the 
law, but the Court will rule out all such pleas 
under the rulings that ignorance of the true in¬ 
tent of the law will not excuse any of the govern¬ 
ment officers, when they are charged with the im¬ 
perative duty of making all laws in conformity 
with the Constitution of the United States for the 
protection of all the people of the Nation. The 
Court will find from the facts and the evidence 
when presented to it, that it is only ignorance that 
hasi produced all these undesirable conditions and 
will agree with me that it is not the purpose of 
this book to convict or punish any one, but it is 
our only purpose to provide a remedy so that there 
will be no necessity for any one to ever go to jail 
or a penitentiary for a failure to pay money, the 
Government through its Congress had not provided 
when it was the only power on the earth or any¬ 
where else that had the constitutional power to 
issue money in the United States by which any of 
our people could legally pay or discharge our 
debts. 


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American Money 


It means a money of the people, by the people 
and for the people. 

There is no government today on the earth 
where the people own all their own money. 

The people of the United States only own now 
about $346,080,000 of all the money that circulates 
in their great and extensive commercial business 
transactions. 

Paper Money. 

The principal issues of United States paper 
money was officially called United States notes. 
These were the well-known “greenback” or “legal 
tenders.” The Act of February 25, 1862, author¬ 
ized' the issue of $150,000,000. The second issue of 
$150,000,000 was authorized by the Act of July 11, 
1862, and the third issue of $150,000,000 was au¬ 
thorized by the act of March 3, 1863. 

The reader who wants to go into all the de¬ 
tails of the issue of the people’s own money by 
the Congress of the United States will find it fully 
explained* in Circular No. 52, United States Treas¬ 
ury Department, issued July 1, 1912, on page 32. 

All students and citizens who read this book 
will want to know how there could be paper money. 
To make this little book explicit I herewith print 
extracts from the decisions of the Supreme Court 
of the United States, which can be found in most 
all law offices and libraries in the Nation. The 
decisions are printed in 12 Wallace (79, U. S.) 457, 
110 U. S. 421. I here print some short extracts 

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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


from the Supreme Court of the United States in 
their decisions on the legal tender quality con¬ 
stituting money. The Court says: 


Legal Tender Decisions by Supreme Court 
of the United States 


“Now, if it were certain that nothing else would 
have supplied the absolute necessity of the Treasury, 
that nothing else would have enabled the Government 
to maintain its armies and navy, that nothing else 
would have saved the Government and the Constitution 
from destruction, while the Legal Tender Acts would, 
could any one be bold enough to assert that Congress 
transgressed its powers? Or if these enactments did 
make these results, can it be maintained now that they 
were not for a legitimate end, or “appropriate end 
adapted to that end,” in the language of Chief Justice 
Marshall. That they did work such results is not to 
be doubted. Something revived the drooping faith of 
the people; something brought immediately to the Gov¬ 
ernment’s aid the resources of the Nation, and some¬ 
thing enabled the successful prosecution of the war, 
and the preservation of the national life. What was 
it, if not the Legal Tender Enactments? * * * * 

Making the notes legal tender gave them a new use, 
and it needs no argument to show that the value of 
these things is in proportion to the use to which they 
may be applied. * * * The obligation of a con¬ 

tract to pay money is to pay that which the law shall 
recognize as money when the payment is made. If 
there is anything settled by the decisions, it is this, and 
we do not understand it to be contradicted. * * * 

No one ever doubted that a debt of $1000 contracted 
before 183 4, could be paid by one hundred eagles coined 
after that year, though they contained no mere gold 
than ninety-four eagles such as were coined when the 
contract was made, and this, not because of the in¬ 
trinsic value of the coin, but because of its legal value. 
The eagles coined after 183 4 were not money until 
they were authorized by law and had they been coined 
before, without a law fixing their legal value, they 
could no more have paid a debt than uncoined bullion, 
or cotton, or wheat. Every contract for the payment 
of money simply is necessary subject to the constitu¬ 
tional power of the Government over the currency, 
whatever that power may be, and the obligation of the 
parties is* therefore, assumed with reference to that 
power. 

The reader having thus far seen that I am not 
advocating some new and untried monetary law, 


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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


but only trying to simplify the explanation of 
money and what it is. 

All the money that goes into circulation should 
belong to the people of the United States. It 
should be issued by the Government and protected 
by the Nation. There is no reason or justice in 
this Nation ever borrowing one dollar of money. 
The idea of such a system that this Nation with 
all its vast resources and its already accumulated 
wealth going out to borrow money, to pay inter¬ 
est upon bonds that have been drawing interest 
from this already over-taxed people. No such a 
condition could exist for a single hour if the peo¬ 
ple were only educated upon their constitutional 
powers. It is only the ignorance of the law that 
has permitted all this accumulation of public and 
private debts. 

The reader can see that the United States, 
whose people are so energetic and productive, that 
ever since we became a Nation we have pro¬ 
duced an abundance to feed and clothe all her 
people and a surplus to ship to foreign countries. 
This being the fact why should this Nation owe 
one dollar, let alone the appalling fact that as a 
people, we the United States, now owe billions of 
dollars in debts. We have everything to provide 
for the comfort and sustenance of the people of the 
United-States except money in sufficient quantities 
to facilitate the exchange of commodities. 

Why the people should own their own money 
can be illustrated by the following problem. The 
reader will understand that on the $346,080,000 of 
legal tender money which the people have owned 
since 1862, has never cost the people of the'United 
States one cent of interest since its issue. This 
money has been available for use for over fifty-two 


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EMPLOYMENT OF THE MILLIONS 


years. I will here work out the mathematical 
solution so as to show why the people should own 
all their own money. I will take the 


$346,080,000 

4% 

$13,843,200 

52 

27686400 

69216000 

$719,846,400 


at 


which equals (1 year’s interest) 
Years since issued 


Interest for 52 years 


The reader will see that the people have saved 
$719,846,400 of interest they would have owned 
at 4 per cent per annum. Now, is it not plain to 
see that when the United States issues all its own 
money that there will he no interest to pay and 
that the taxes will soon be reduced to a mere pit¬ 
tance. The reader can see that had Congress is¬ 
sued bonds for this $346,080,000 at 4 per cent, per 
annum the people would now owe $719,846,400 of 
interest which would have had to be refunded into 
bonds to pay this interest. Now add $346,080,000 
plus $719,846,400 and it equals $1,059,926,400. This 
one billion fifty-nine millions, nine hundred twen¬ 
ty-six thousand four hundred dollars is in the 
hands of the people and had all the money been 
issued and owned by the people, there would not 
be a boncl or mortgage held in Europe against any 
of the American people. Our corporations, cities, 
counties, states, school districts, and the people in 
all vocations of life could have secured all the 
money in the United States to have carried on all 
their own business. This will bring financial inde¬ 
pence to the United' States and all her people, 
which will insure the continuance of freedom to 
this Republic from the entanglements that the 
now debt-cursed nations of Europe are fighting 


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over. It is only ignorance that has created all 
debts and it follows that to free this Nation of 
its unjust burden of debts the people must become 
educated to their own power to furnish all the 
money that is required for the use of all the peo¬ 
ple of this Nation. I here repeat the statement 
of the fact that a Nation which can issue bonds 
drawing interest and m;ake them good can more 
easily issue the same amount of money which will 
be absolutely good, for every dollar of money in 
circulation adds to every productive people. It 
stimulates ne»w enterprises and gives freedom and 
encouragement to new inventions, arts and sciences. 

The issuing of a full legal tender money is 
an undisputed right the people have under the 
Constitution and the adjudicated laws of the 
United States; and all there is to be done is for 
the people to send to Congress only such Senators 
and Representatives who will vote to authorize the 
Secretary of the Treasury to have issued this law¬ 
ful paper money. Now, the reader can see by the 
law that National Bank notes are redeemable with 
‘ ‘ greenbacks, ” legal tender money, which will 
show you at once that the Government should not 
farm out to one set of corporations the power to 
circulate their notes unless they give the same 
privilege to all corporations to circulate their 
notes which would bring endless confusion. Then 
to avoid all unjust legislation and confusion, the 
United States should issue only legal tender money, 
and cease to lease out the authority to any cor¬ 
poration or corporations to circulate their notes 
and loan them to the people at a high rate of in¬ 
terest and at the salne time draw an interest from 
the people upon bonds issued by the Government, 
thus the people are now paying double interest 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OP PROSPERITY 


upon every dollar of National Bank notes which 
are in circulation. 

Here let me charge the reader that we are not 
here to fight any system of money now in use. I 
am only showing just what will allow all the people 
to be able to secure money at a reasonable ex¬ 
change for their productions as will best enable 
them to continue to improve, expand and grow as 
their intelligence and growing wants may require.. 

I would coin all the gold as it is coined today. 

I would coin all the silver that would come to 
the mints the same as gold. 

I would re-issue the $50,000,000 in fractional 
currency, and put it into circulation as it is the 
most convenient form of fractional money ever 
circulated. 

The reader must remember that we as a Nation 
are paying 4 per cent, per annum on $50,000,000 of 
United States bonds known as silver bond's,, which 
were sold and the proceeds from the sale of these 
bonds were used to purchase copper, tin, nickel, 
zinc and silver from! which to coin 1-cent pieces, 
5-cent pieces, 10-cent pieces, 25-cent pieces and 50- 
cent pieces. 

It was the act of an ignorant Congress which 
authorized the issuing of the $50,000,000 of silver 
bonds at 4 per cent, to run for thirty years to take 
the place of the fractional paper currency. I will 
here again make the solution by mathematical com¬ 
putation which will show you that Congress 
should at once re-issue the fractional paper money. 

I now take the amount of bonds issued at 4%. 

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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


Interest for one year 
Number of years, run 
Interest for 30 years 

The reader will see that the United States 
would have to borrow $10,000,000 more silver to 
pay the interest at the end of the first thirty years 
So as to keep the fractional coin in circulation, Con¬ 
gress will have to issue bonds for the $50,000,000, 
plus the interest of $60,000,000, which equals 
$110,000,000 and which will be the amount of 
bonds we will owe at the end of the first thirty 
years to keep the $50,000,000 of fractional coin 
money in circulation. Had Congress left the $49,- 
000,000 of paper fractional money in circulation 
which was the people’s own money, we would have 
saved a bond issue of $110,000,000 in thirty years 
and this people’s money was more convenient and 
practical than the old barbarous metal system of 
bronze for money. 

The people who study and think upon the acts 
of the Government will readily understand that 
there is not ndw and neither has there ever been 
gold and silver enough mined in all the history 
of nations to supply a circulating medium. The 
issuing of paper money has always had to be re¬ 
sorted to, to supply the needs of commerce. Then 
the only question to be decided is who shall issue 
this paper money and circulate it, the people of 
the United States or some corporation which must 
receive its charter from the Government of the 
United States? 

The ablest statesmen and the best-known pub¬ 
lic men of the United States have all expressed 
their opinion on this most vital of all questions 


$50,000,000 

4% 

$2,000,000.00 

30 

$60,000,000 


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EMPLOYMENT OF THE MILLIONS 


before the people of this Uhited States at this 
time; which is, Shall the people of the United 
States own and circulate their own money? 

The reader is now asked to look up the opin¬ 
ion of Thomas Jefferson in his works, Yol. VI, pp. 
40-41. 

Then read the opinion of Benjamin Franklin, 
James Madison, Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, 
John C. Calhoun, Thomas H. Benton, Albert Gal¬ 
latin, Hon. J. M. Bright and Hon. S. P. Chase. I 
advise the student to read “The Money of Nat¬ 
ions” by Judge Warwick Morton, published by the 
Library Publishing Company, Washington; D. C. 

Before I leave the subject I want to make 
the issue of money so simple to the reader that he 
or she cannot be mistaken in , what to do and to 
say on this subject. When the student has learned 
for himself or herself that it is no longer a dis¬ 
puted question as to the full power under the Con¬ 
stitution of the United’ States for Congress to issue 
a full legal tender money, I have accomplished all 
that this series of articles are intended to estab¬ 
lish. 

AUTHORITIES ON MONEY. 

I will now here reprint some authorities and 
their definitions of money. 

Attorney-General Akerman, in speaking of the 
legal tender act, said: 

“Money is not a substance but an impression of 
legal authority—a printed legal decree.” 

Tiffany on Constitutional Law, a standard 
authority, Chapter XII (Power of Congress to 
Coin Money), Section 400, page 221, says: 

“There is legally no such thing as gold or silver 
money, or paper money. Money is the sovereign au¬ 
thority impressed on that which is capable of taking 


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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 

and retaining the impression. That upon which the 
stamp is placed is called Coin; the coin may be metal, 
parchment or paper. The value is in the stamp and 
not in the metal or material.’ 

Cernuchi says: 

“Mioney is a value created by law; its basis is legal 
and not material. It is, perhaps, not easy to convince 
anyone that the value of metalie money is created by 
law. It is, however, the fact. It makes no difference 
of what material money is composed, whether it is 
costly or otherwise; the law of legal tender gives value 
to money, and that value increases or diminishes m 
proportion as the volume is greater or less. 


Ricardo says: 

“By limiting the quantity of money it can be raised 
to any conceivable value. It is on this principle that 
paper money circulates. Though it has no intrinsic 
value, yet, by limiting its quantity, its value in ex¬ 
change is as great as an equal quantity of coin. On 
these principles, it will be seen, that it is not neces¬ 
sary that paper money should be payable in specie to 
secure its value.” 


Sir John Sinclair says: 

“It was a great discovery when a metalie medium 
was substituted for barter; it was also a great discov¬ 
ery when paper convertible into coin was substituted 
for gold and silver; but a third discovery was reserved 
for our own times, namely, that with an inconvertible 
paper currency, agriculture, commerce and manufac¬ 
tures might advance in a career of unexampled pros¬ 
perity.” 


Mr. Gallatin says: 


“If in a country which wants and possesses a me- 
talic currency of seventy millions of dollars, a paper 
currency to the same amount should be substituted, the 
seventy millions in gold and silver, being no longer 
wanted for that purpose, will be exported, and the re¬ 
turns may be converted into a productive capital and 
add an equal amount of wealth of the country.” 

Ricardo’s Proposal for an Econimc and Secure 


Currency, says: 

“A well-regulated .paper currency is so great an 
improvement in commerce, that I should greatly re¬ 
gret if prejudice should induce us to return to a sys¬ 
tem of less utility. The introduction of the precious 
metals for the purposes of money may with truth be 
considered as one of the most important steps toward 
the improvement of commerce and the arts of civilized 
life; but it is no less true that with the advancement 
©f knowledge and science, we discover that it would be 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 


another improvement to banish them again from, the 
employment of which during a less enlightened period, 
they had been so advantageously applied.” 

“The theory of the intrinsic value of money has 
been abandoned by the best writers and speakers.”— 
Encyclopedia Britannica. 

“Metalic money, while acting as coin, is identical 
with paper money, in respect to being destitute of in¬ 
trinsic value.”—North American Review. 

“An article is determined to be (money by reason 
of the performance by it of certain functions, without 
regard to its form or substance.’’Appleton’s American 
Encyclopedia. 

Hon. Amasa "Walker says in his Money Prob¬ 
lems, page 6: 

“Every paper dollar, unless a specie dollar, is held 
deposited for its redemption, displaces gold and silver 
coin, and in so far diminishes the demand for the pre¬ 
cious metals, and in so far reduces their value. A 
mixed currency, whenever it exisits, form! the standard 
of value as truly as does a coin currency when it alone 
exists.” 


LAWS ISSUING MONEY. 

Congress is not limited by the Constitution to 
any material out of which to make money. They 
made and stamped paper money in 1791; copper in 
1793; copper and silver in 1794; gold, copper and 
silver in 1795; copper and nickel in 1857; copper, 
tin and zinc in 1864; paper in 1861, 1862, 1863 and 
1864; copper and nickel in 1866. There are no 
limitations mentioned in the Constitution as; to 
what the Congress shall or shall not authorize as 
money. Copper is used by all nations as money. 

The gold dollar, under the law of 1792, con¬ 
tained 24.75 grains gold and 2.25 alloy, making 27 
grains standard gold. Under the law of 1837, 
the gold dollar contained 23.22 grains gold and 
2.57 alloy, making 25.8 grains standard gold, be¬ 
ing 1.53 grains less pure gold in the latter than 
in the former dollar. 


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The law of 1792, made the silver dollar 416 
grains standard silver, 371% grains pure metal, 
and 44% grains copper alloy. The law of 1837 
made the silver dollar 412% grains, 371% silver 
and 41% copper, the alloy in silver dollar being 
reduced by law of 1837, 3% ' grains, leaving the 
silver therein the same as under the law of 1792. 

The law of 1864 makes the cent to contain 
only 48 grains, 95 parts copper, and' 5 parts tin 
and zinc, and makes them legal tender for 10 cents 
only. 

The law of 1866 made five-cent pieces con¬ 
taining 77 grains, 75 per cent, copper and 25 per 
cent, nickel, and legal tender for $1 under that 
law; but the law of 1873 has made them legal 
tender for 25 cents only. Previous to 1853 all sil¬ 
ver coins of the United States had been full legal 
tender. 

All paper money that has been issued by the 
United States are known as “ notes,” From 1791, 
until 1812, notes of the first bank of the United 
States were money, and a full legal tender'for all 
debts due the Government. They were demone¬ 
tized by Congress in 1812 after the charter of 
the bank expired. 

From 1812 until 1822 Treasury notes were 
money and a legal tender for all debts due the 
Government. They were demonetized when the 
second bank of the United States was chartered. 

From 1816 until 1836 the notes of the second 
bank of the United States were money, and a le¬ 
gal tender for all debts due the Government. They 
were demonetized in 1836. 

From 1836 to 1837 State Bank notes where the 
public money was deposited, were money and a 
legal tender to the Government. 

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From 1837 until 1862, Treasury Notes, 
whether drawing interest or not, were money and 
a legal tender for all debts due the Government. 
The laws of 1837, 1838, 1841, 1842, 1846, and 1857 
made them legal tender. 

In 1861 and 1862, $60,000,000 demand Treas¬ 
ury Notes were made mpney and a legal tender 
for everything, and were equal to coin. 

In 1862 legal tender Treasury Notes were made 
money for everything except duties on imports 
and interest on the public debt. 

Certificates of the Government for coin depos¬ 
its were made money and a legal tender for every¬ 
thing. 

Certificates of indebtedness, clearing house 
certificates, three-year interest notes, one-year in¬ 
terest notes, 7-30 notes, compound interest notes, 
and 3 per cent, certificates of the Government were 
made money and a legal tender for everything ex¬ 
cept duties on imports and interest upon the pub¬ 
lic debt. 

National Bank notes were, in 1863, made 
money and a legal tender for all debts due the 
Government, except duties on imports and interest 
on the public debt. They were not legal tender 
in payment to individuals by the banks or the 
Government. They are not now. Congress de¬ 
monetized silver in 1873. It has been remonetized 
since. 

The foregoing recited acts of Congress are to 
show the reader and student that Congress has 
from the foundation of our Government never re¬ 
stricted legal tender money to any two or more 
metals but you will find by the record that this 
Government has always used its constitutional 
power to issue a full legal tender paper money. 

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Then, all that Congress has to do is to issue money 
sufficient to transact the businesss of the people 
of the United States, which will stop the sale of 
bonds and other securities in Europe to draw in¬ 
terest from the people of this nation. There should 
be but one form of paper money and that should 
be a full legal tender for all debts, both public and 
private. All new improvements should be made 
by the issuing of nelw money. This will put a stop 
to the unbearable burdens of an ever-increasing 
taxation. 

The preposterous idea that there must be an 
army T)f revenue collectors paid high salaries to 
collect taxes from every industry in the country 
to pay taxes on debts created by this Government, 
to make improvements, when all industries are 
weakening under the already excessive interest 
charges, high wages and oppressive legislation, 
which has been forced upon all corporations, and 
men and women who have attempted to do a legit¬ 
imate business in the past forty years, is nonsense. 
On the failure of Congress to provide a legal ten¬ 
der money in sufficient quantities to meet the re¬ 
quirements of the ever-expanding business of the 
United States is the sole and only cause for the 
organizing of the so-called trusts. The United 
States Congresses are the only parties responsible 
for every trust that has ever been formed in the 
United States and not the individuals who are the 
parties composing the trust. 

The greatest public criminals that ever set 
foot upon the soil of the United States Were all 
made through legislation by Congress upon 
the money question. Our National banking laws 
have always been a pool in which crime was the 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 

only result that could follow if the law was lit¬ 
erally followed. 

As the act of Congress creating the bonded 
debts was a crime within itself, so all institution 
built upon a law which is unjust adds criminals 
which increase wherever that law is the basis for 
the business transacted. The present Regoinal 
Banks are no remedy for the old National Bank¬ 
ing systems of one debt being made the basis for 
the creating of another debt based upon a former 
created debt. The whole scheme of the law of 
debt is to keep the people in debt. When the is¬ 
suing of money a full legal tender defeats all in¬ 
crease of debts and provides the people and the 
Nation with a currency to pay all current expenses 
and in time will enable them to pay the already 
accumulated billions of dollars of debts now held 
against every foot of land belonging to the United 
States and every citizen therein. The people of 
this Republic are cursed and doubly-cursed with an 
ever-increasing debt voted upon themselves 
thrpugh their pwp ignprapce of the laJw of money. 


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Who Will I Thank? 


Thursday, November 26, 1914, Bryn Mawr, 
King” County, and State of Washington, U. S. A. 

At home for the first time in many years on 
this nationally proclaimed feast day, by all act¬ 
ing presidents of this Republic, almost ever since 
the founding of this Government. 

I arose at '5 o ’clock a. m. this morning, kin¬ 
dled three fires and took a complete survey of 
stored foods which were ample for our present 
need. Then I closely estimated the fuel supply of 
both wood and coal, exclusive of the fuel gas and 
light, which is always ready, responding to the 
match more quickly than the majority of prayers 
issuing from stomachs crammed full of dressings 
on turkey, which is greased, extending two-thirds 
of the way up into the esophagus on such as this 
natal day, calls for, besides other trimmings, which 
I will omit here on account of their irregular and 
inharmonious spelling, and not saying anything 
about their effect on the human anatomy when 
prepared for this day of renowned stomach wor¬ 
ship. 

My wife and daughter had arranged to visit 
my wife’s sister and family residing at the town of 
Auburn, Washington, some twenty-seven miles up 
or down the valley from Seattle. Breakfast is over 
and the sun-worshipper’s god is peeping through 
the mists and fog, so I have concluded, as I am 
alone according to the race, I will prove my view of 
the ever-presence of all things to myself by hold- 


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EMPLOYMENT OF THE MILLIONS 


ing an informal reception with all the living as 
well as those whom the race think they have bur¬ 
ied and consigned them as follows; a very few have 
been piloted to their elysian fields of plenty to eat, 
Which is prepared by their mystic master quicker 
than I can say scat at the old spotted cat when it 
fs on a thanksgiving dinner table gnawing away- at 
the left hind quarter of a three-year-old turkey 
hen gobbler, which has been prepared for this an¬ 
nually renowned occasion in millions of homes and 
the eat shops of this mortgaged and bonded cursed 
nation of motley mixed and blood-be-sprinkled peo¬ 
ple from all nations. While at this very moment 
the Christian nations of Europe are spilling blood 
sufficient to wash all their bonding sins away, with 
Pagan Turkey just ready to jump into Greece for 
their rights unsettled in the old score. 

Last evening while I was on the streets of Se¬ 
attle where the cooked and the uncooked eatables 
in endless varieties were in piles upon every hand, 
produced by the industrious and' pains-taking men 
and women of Washington and other States and 
countries, and while the people were preying upon 
one another, and elbowing their way through the 
increasing throngs—I heard a racket in the street— 
looking, I beheld a wagon drawn by large, healthy, 
turkey, hog and beef-eaters—men and boys, with a 
sign on it in these words: “1200 men and women 
in Seattle who are hungry.” I at once said to my¬ 
self, if that is a fact, every one of the 1200 ought 
to be exceedingly thankful to themselves that they 
had escaped being in the Austrian army when the 
Russian army emptied’ their breech-loading Chris¬ 
tian repeating guns, and in the following days put 
40,000 hungry Austrians into one grave to feed the 
earth which is always hungry like men and women 


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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


who eat all they can get without giving an equiv¬ 
alent, and are continually parading themselves 
upon the earth somewhere as the children of some 
relentless and always hungry god. Had the com¬ 
mittee on display wagon sign come to me, to write 
their sign to create a sensation on that afternoon 
before race thanksgiving holiday, and said, “We 
want to attract the attention of the world to se¬ 
cure a donation of a grubstake, will you write for 
us a display sign?” I would have written it as fol¬ 
lows: There are 351,200 people in Seattle who will 
be hungry. Tomorrow is the national Thanksgiv¬ 
ing day, and out of this population there are 1200 
of us men and women who have been fools by fool¬ 
ing ourselves and we want a grubstake tonights— 
Here I would have placed a George Washington 
dash, and then added the following—We want our 
grub now.—Scriptural quotations: Provide not for 
the morrow. Let each day provide for itself. The 
only ones that will ever be blessed are us 1200 
meek and lowly in our grub supply on this earth. 
Your Lord is our shepherd. We are hungry, feed 
us. We are now as your lambs, always bleating. 
We are hungry day by day. This is our way of 
procuring food. The psalmist has said, he never 
saw the righteous forsaken nor their seed begging 
bread. We are the righteous of all these hungry 
people. Donate liberally. Our society are all lov¬ 
ers of the cheerful givers. Donate now and we will 
be blessed and thankful. That the poor ye have 
with you always even unto the end of the earth. 
We are here to stay with you. Give us our grub 
today and every day alike, worlds without end 
for our hunger is never satisfied to exceed a few 
short hours at any one time. We are the direct 
descendants of Hiram of Mhckle, meaning hungry, 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 

and Maurum of Teo, his wife, meaning much. Then 
a strict translation for us is: much hungry. This 
last thought is the clincher. When people under 
stand; it would cause all that have to immediately 
begin to donate to us to whom, all things to eat 
rightfully belong. 

In looking back over my copy I find I have 
been absorbed in writing a statement of facts for 
the hungry, which is surely applicable on this natal 
feast day. 

So, I will now proceed to call in President U. 
S. Grant, and shall ask him why is it necessary that 
there are so many unemployed, hungry beggars in 
the United States today, when our people have pro¬ 
duced foods enough to feed all our people and 
as many more? 

Here comes ex-President Grant and his an¬ 
swer : 

!T was born, raised and educated a hard 
money, hard times Democrat. And I signed the 
bill when President to burn up the people’s money 
(the legal tender greenbacks) and issued in their 
stead a bonded debt drawing interest to take the 
place of the people’s money, both interest and 
principal payable in gold coin. Something the peo¬ 
ple did not have and neither do they produce, and 
never will have. The sole reason for all the un¬ 
happy condition now in the United States is that 
the people have no money except interest-bearing. 
Every dollar of money used in all avenues of in¬ 
dustry has to be borrowed and there was nowhere 
for the progressive people of the United States to 
secure money, only to borrow it of foreign people. 
Money they must have and the only way they 
could secure money was to mortgage and bond to 
secure a currency. The people of the United States 


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as individuals and corporations now owe in Europe 
our $600,000,000 in interest at this time, which is 
to be paid in gpld coin. This interest alone will 
take all the surplus wheat crop of this Nation to 
pay it. So you see by my signing the bill to re¬ 
fund the people’s money into interest-bearing 
bonds I gave to Eruope for this year all the sur¬ 
plus food of the United States and more too, so 
these are the only causes for financial shortage, 
food shortage, and the three millions of unem¬ 
ployed laborers in the United States, and the only 
effectual remedy for all these conditions is for the 
Government of the United States to re-issue all the 
cancelled and burned-up paper money wdiich will 
supply the Nation with its own money.” U. S. 
Grant’s answer to my direct question as before 
stated, November 26, 1914, 4 p. m. 


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Mothers’ Homes to Be Exempt 
From All Taxation 


A bill to exempt the home of all mothers in 
the United States of America from all taxation. 

Provisions of the Bill. 

Exempts from all taxation a resident lot in 
every city and village in the United States, and a 
lot or parcel of land in the county containing from 
one-half to five acres, with all the buildings, fur¬ 
niture, fixtures, musical instruments, libraries, 
works of art, decorations, pictures, paintings, with¬ 
out regard to estimated values of any and all 
homes in the United States of America, when 
owned and occupied as a homestead by any and 
all mothers who have borne a child and are the 
holders of title to the homestead in their own 
name. 

To become operative and in full force after 
the passage of the law authorizing the Secretary 
of the Treasury of the United States to issue $2,- 
000,000,000 of full legal tender paper money to 
pay for national improvements and employ all the 
unemployed men, women and children in the Na¬ 
tion, at a reasonable wage compensation (a full 
explanation of that bill is to be found' under an¬ 
other heading in this book). 

Since the early dawn of the 17th century the 
oppressed of all Europe have been looking to Amer¬ 
ica as their one country where they could escape 
the all-absorbing system of taxation, where they 
could own a home and would be permitted to re- 


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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


tain it as the one place where mother and child 
would not be evicted and turned out upon the 
world to tramp and beg for shelter and food to 
save her child from storms and hunger through 
the tax collectors inexorable law, which is pay 
your taxes or the law will sell your home, and 
mother and child will be turned out upon the 
street without shelter or food; to satisfy this relic 
of barbarism used by the roving bands in human 
form since the early days of primitive man—who 
by might is righh-rconfiscated all products that 
suited their fancy and left the producer in want 
and despair, after devouring all food supplies and 
carrying away with them all things possible and 
what they were not able to remove, were destroyed 
or burned to ashes. Many more facts I could 
state as to the treatment of both mother and 
child, but will omit all but the points that apply 
to the law to be passed, to provide after all these 
centuries, a law that will protect the mother and 
her child to own and occupy her own home and 
reside therein without taxation from any and 
every source and under all conditions. 

Through all the ages of man’s occupation of 
this earth, in every form of government, even 
during the matriarchial periods, the mother has 
had to bear the burdens of government. She has 
been compelled to become a mother through sale 
and bargain for price without her consent and 
against her expressed protest. She has been made 
a dependent by both religious and civil govern¬ 
ments through their teachings and custom laws. 
She has been the inventor, architect, provider, 
builder and maintainer of the homes and abode 
of all the children of the races of man. Early 
in the unfoldment of the reasoning faculties of 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 


the mother, she discovered that many animals 
would return to a selected place to receive pre¬ 
ferred food, so she applied her tests made upon 
the animals, to her lord and master, (afterwards 
called husband )to return at stated’ times to eat 
the food she had provided for him. This was the 
extent of the support given to the mother and 
the child by the law-named husband. As the cen¬ 
turies have circled away, even unto this day, since 
man made a record, his vocation has been and his 
time spent in the chase of the wild animal or on 
the battlefields that have covered’ the earth many 
times. Down to this very hour the mothers of 
the children of the race are still homeless and the 
mothers are still toiling to provide food and shel¬ 
ter for their homeless children, and meet the ever- 
increasing war taxes charged up to them by put¬ 
ting a double war tax upon every pound of food 
and yard of cloth and all necessaries to preserve 
the life of a fatherless child while the husband’s 
body was decaying in an unknown trench in a 
foreign land. 

The hundreds of thousands, yes, millions of 
mothers, who have had their homes confiscated 
by excessive war taxes after they had earned 
them, for the want of money to pay the govern¬ 
ment tax placed upon them during the present 
civilization ought to cause every citizen in all 
nations to declare an immediate armistice for ten 
days, sign articles of agreement for a world’s 
peace of nations, for the next thousand' years, 
and imemdiately begin to expend the same amount 
of money in the building of homes and providing 
for the mothers of the children of the races of 
man for a thousand years to come as was spent 
in war in the past two thousand years. 

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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


The mother and the mothers of the races have 
not only been made to bear the burdens of bear¬ 
ing and caring for the daughters and sons of the 
races of mothers and provide for the care of the 
nations in peace, but have been compelled' to give 
their sons in divided columns in their prime off 
maturity to become a target for one another in a 
frenzied fury, to receive the death dealing, tom- 
mahawk, spear, arrow, dart, bludgeon, sword, 
bullet and cannon balls filled with deadly poisons 
thrown as projectiles at long range and the all- 
devouring dynamite bombs have been planted in 
the seas and on the lands to destroy whole regi¬ 
ments at one explosion on the land or send to 
the bottom of the ocean a ship and its crew of 
hundreds of men. And this is not all. The daugh¬ 
ters of these mothers are again forced through the 
same ordeal to keep this tragic, drastic display of 
races and nations from having time to consider 
why and how all this turmoil, and mothers’ never 
ending toil, is visited upon her daughters, in its 
endless chain of nevei* ending toil, in poverty, 
hunger and want. While the earth with its in¬ 
exhaustible supply is ever ready to give forth from 
its storehouse of all that all mothers and all her 
generations can use and consume of both neces¬ 
saries and luxuries. Thus, it has been as nations 
have come and gone. The cry of the mothers for 
a release from these continuous repetitions has 
been met and silenced by that many times multi¬ 
plied centuries ago through religion and govern¬ 
ment, religion leading, playing the first card, with 
its fabricated fiction in the following: that the 
mothers shall bring forth their children in pain 
and sorrow, for they are “conceived in sin and 
iniquity. Immediately the Government (religions 


EMPLOYMENT OF THE MILLIONS 


always side partner) throws its tramp by saying 
to the mothers: “Go forth and multiply and re¬ 
plenish the earth.”. The mothers hold up their 
hands in horror, saying to the governments, “You 
have drafted our sons and husbands and slaugh¬ 
tered’ them like beasts in a slaughter pen and there 
are no husbands for our fair daughters; in what 
manner shall our daughters become mothers,” 

This reasoning mothers’ query, non-plusses gov¬ 
ernment—religion is steadfast. Their game is 
blocked. At the- headquarters of each of this 
triumvirate, silence, has been ordered and a secret 
session is convened, special committees pass to 
and from religion to government and vice versa. 
The cannon are muffled, prayers are uttered only 
between long intervals. Broad day is as silent as 
a midnight hour. Mothers are waiting to hear 
with bated breathing, hoping against hope that 
her daughter’s trials were over and that home, 
peace, plenty and comfort will be their lot, and as 
mother utters these words—My trial, sorrow, want 
and deprivations will be forgotten. The messen¬ 
ger has left the secret chamber to notify the moth¬ 
ers to bring their daughters to religion’s head¬ 
quarters to hear the answer agreed upon in answer 
to the mother’s query: “In what manner shall our 
daughters become mothers?” Mothers with their 
fair daughters hasten to the hall of assembying. 
On their entering they behold the administrative 
platform crowded with church dignitaries and gov¬ 
ernment officials commingling together rank and 
rank in solemn silence. The chief dignitary for the 
church offered a most selemn prayer for the com¬ 
fort and mercy to be bestowed upon the mothers 
who had been so ruthlessly robbed of their sons and 
husbands and that they are to be provided with 


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fathers that the earth may be replenished' with many 
more sons to fight the battles of the most high on 
earth. At this juncture of this most solemn prayer 
—Inclusia, the spokesman for the mothers, arose 
from her seat and in a clear and emphatic lan¬ 
guage said: “We mothers with our daughters are 
here, to hear the answer, to our query, Are we not 
to receive our answer now, ’ ’ The Chief of Gov¬ 
ernment arose with a flouish of state, the guards 
at the doors presented arms. Then he spoke in an 
over awing manner, saying, “Woman is not per¬ 
mitted to speak in church, and the All Reverend 
is not again to be disturbed in his officiating on 
this solemn and most important occasion to both 
Church and State. When we are ready, we will 
announce our finding and it will be from our com¬ 
mon divinity from above and in these words, 
'Wives, obey your husbands,’ and for the impu¬ 
dence of this one womian in not keeping silent 
in church, I order you all to return to your station 
in life, where it has pleased our most high to place 
you here.” The guards were instructed to permit 
no woman to speak within this or any other sacred 
sanctuary while they remain on earth. This most 
solemn service was then closed by the Chief of 
State, while the great hall was being cleared of 
all mothers and their fair daughters by passing 
out between rows of guards, in glittering uniforms 
and costly arms. Not a word was spoken by a 
solitary mother or daughter until they were out 
of hearing of these arrogant dignitaries from now 
on to be kuoWn as State and Church when those 
in the lead come to a halt, suddenly, while those 
in the rear moved forward more rapidly until they 
had bcome one vast assembly. Then Inclusia, their 
spokesman, arose and said to that vast audience: 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 


“Our daughters are doomed, though the earth will 
be replenished and repeopled through our daughters 
by the lust of the dignitaries of both Church and 
State by taking our daughters as concubinage 
wives and as fast as their sons are grown to ma¬ 
turity they will be ordered to the battlefields and 
the battles will go on, with the same pomp and 
glitter that was displayed by the Chief of State 
when I asked that solemn prayer reciter, a straight 
forward and legitimate question. You all heard 
his answer. Our fair daughters will be debauched 
and deceived to conceive, and their sons and 
daughters will be separated at early ages. Their 
daughters who can be controlled by the Church dig¬ 
nitaries will become their secret concubine re¬ 
ligious slaves and toil for the sole benefit of the 
ruling and officiating Church. The unruly and 
disobedient to all Church discipline will be con¬ 
demned, villified and branded as out-casts neither 
fit for the most high or the associates of either 
Church or State. These will be huddled’ together, 
for the use and lusts of the soldiers and the bums 
of men who also refuse to be controlled by this 
combine of Church and State, and they will revel 
in the lust of the depraved, by permission of the 
State by the payment of sums of money equal to 
the revenue derived by the Church from those who 
toil for the Church in secret and sumissive slavery. 

“There will be a few of our daughters who 
will find a few of our sons who will escape be¬ 
tween the lines of battle, who will marry and build 
them homes, only to be robbed by the State and 
mobbed by the Church, but their sons and daugh¬ 
ters will educate their sons and daughters to de¬ 
velop the earth, and after the rise and fall of the 
nations, and the Church decays in its own secret 


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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


deceptions and fictitious conceptions. Through 
education, justice » and equity, in two thousand 
years from now the mothers here now will be the 
mothers then and our husbands in the filds of bat¬ 
tle will be our husbands then, standing side by 
side in one mighty movement, one single purpose, 
and one eternal and unending triumph, will build 
a nation out of the builders of all nations, where 
the mother and the child will be encouraged and 
aided in providing home, food and comfort, in 
a land more and more real—possessing more avail¬ 
able and ever-increasing wealth, with its teeming 
millions—the choice of the earth, who will have 
outlived this generation of bombastic, degenate 
deceivers in Church and the bigotted, brainless 
Chiefs of State who are sustained by an enforced 
army who parade in uniforms trimmed in glittering 
tinsel and brass, who are kept to guard the secret 
acts of the debauchers, of the subdued and crushed 
mothers and daughters of this and past ages, who 
feed, clothe and sustain both Church and 
State thorugh their incessant and never-ending 
toil of these homeless mothers with their father¬ 
less children, whose homes have been taxed from 
them by a confiscating war tax, and the earn¬ 
ings of their secret and open concubinage of both 
Church and' State with the hundreds and thous¬ 
ands of mothers and daughters who have been en¬ 
forced to bear sons for the battlefield and daugh¬ 
ters for the lusts and support of the depraved, 
through the agents of these uninformed who do 
not understand that the one cell life in all things, 
is all mother and' ever remains potentially mother 
though it adds by subdividing and uniting to end¬ 
less infinity. The mother and the daughter are 
the same in age and youth, and never can be de- 


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feated nor annihilated, for mother was before the 
earth, yet she is the earth, which is all mother 
as everything in it, on it, around it, below it, and 
above it, is mother. And when those bombastic 
degenerate deceivers in Chnrch and the bigotted', 
brainless, in conceit reasoning, Chiefs of State as 
yon mothers and our fair daughters here assem¬ 
bled, heard from that bombastic platform, did not 
know that in the order of their unfoldment, that 
they themselves were the result of this long qua¬ 
drennial centuries multiplied by as many more 
centuries of this continous rule which has produced 
all such mental deformities as they are claiming 
to represent and if they would just think for one 
moment, they each would know that they could 
not have been,' if it had not been for mother, 
who conceived, gestated to ripening maturity, then 
^gave birth to each and every one of them, then 
nurtured, fed and sheltered them while she at the 
same time was doubly taxed to support a like 
set of deformed degenerates, whose mother like 
their mother, was robbed of the life-giving body¬ 
building units, in cell-adding entities, to unfold a 
mother, so they were each ripened as a half- 
starved mother, just as the drones in the hive of 
bees are, so that this most high—these dwarfs are 
talking about were only a lot of the same set of 
undeveloped mothers, that they themselves are. 
You will remember that the guards were orderd 
not to permit a woman to speak in that or any of 
their other sacred sanctuaries while they lived 
upon the earth, as though those decaying degen¬ 
erates could conceive of any possible way to pro¬ 
duce that building without mother when it was 
the mother seed in which was all the trees, in 
which was the lumber, the sand, the rock, the 


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metal, the paint, and all the decorations, even the 
guards and their glittering uniforms, their guns, 
were there through mother, and without mother 
they could not have been, for the tiniest atom to 
man, is only mother and from man to their most 
high that these degenerates speak of with so much 
solemn sactity, could never have been known and 
heard, by them, had not mother conceived and 
borne them. Oh, what folly and ignorance the 
mothers of understanding have had to contend 
against that the races of mothers might continue 
in their daughters and sons, the seed germ and 
the expression in body form to go on to and pos¬ 
sess in its fullness of the inexhaustible storehouse 
of this earth filled to overflowing with all the 
treasures in endless varieties to fully and satis¬ 
factorily satisfy our every want now and for all 
the never-ending ages that mother has in her in- ^ 
disputable possession now, to make this her earth 
to produce from thought to seed, seed to plant, 
plant to fruit, and fruit to mother in an endless 
and never-ending succession for the full enjoy¬ 
ment of all the races and each and every expres¬ 
sion in all forms that will come from the unseen 
into the seen through mother’s desire in her own 
understanding of all she is and her power to make 
and produce for her and her children greater 
health, wealth and happiness, so that her daugh¬ 
ters and sons who can build homes of comfort, 
supplied with foods in profusion where their 
daughters can dwell with their children produced 
by their own desire and selection, protected by the 
State from the tortures through the teachings of 
this generation of degenerates who are deformed 
and are inflicting their deformity upon the crushed 
and' cringing enforced-bearing mothers who have 


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toiled incessantly that their children might be 
sheltered, and grow to maturity, to again be forced 
to repeat this same round of endless toil. 

“I say to mothers and our daughters here 
now that this inhuman and unholy trio of Church 
and State which is bringing on a night of dark¬ 
ness more beastly hideous and nauseating to con¬ 
scious motherhood than my tongue can find words 
to utter, that I may explain to you that darkness 
the people of this earth which is so full of worth 
and beauty for all the living, are being led into 
such miseries never before experienced as the 
mothers and their daughters are being forced into 
by this comjbination known now as Church and 
State, but there will come a new civilization out 
of these darkening years that will doubly repay 
every individual mother and all mothers for our 
meeting here today while those hydra-headed mon¬ 
sters, Church and State, who are in secret plan¬ 
ning the further subjugation of all the mothers 
and daughters now living and all that are to be 
for generations yet to come. Let us, you and I, ^ 
be diligent students in all things that will give 
to the mother and the child the full and equal 
rights to entitle them to possess a home free from 
all taxation as the Church now is freed which 
produces nothing but exists from the production 
of homeless mothers with their helpless children. 


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Secret Session of Church and State 
Before the Present Era 


When the assembly hall had been completely 
cleared of the mothers and their daughters who 
had been ordered by the Chief of State to their 
tenements which were miserable dark and unvent¬ 
ilated rooms owned by the Church free from tax¬ 
ation by State, from which the Church derived 
large revenues for rentals from these homeless 
mothers. The officials of both Church and State 
were so absorbed with their directing the guards 
to search every nook and corner of their sacred 
hall for possible spies of those who were known to 
be opposed to this long rule of Church then known 
as State and Church, that the mothers and their 
daughters were undisturbed during the whole time 
of Inclusia’s great speech, on open grounds where 
they had been permitted to gather to hear the 
news of the battles that were kept constantly be¬ 
fore all the people under strict censorship by joint 
committees from both Church and State. Every¬ 
thing being made securely locked and barred with 
double rows of guards on the outside of their so- 
sacred sanctuary where no .woman ever again was 
ever to be permitted to speak or allowed to ask a 
question in a public audience or the so-sacred and 
solemn services for the officers of State or the 
robed dignitaries and officiating membership were 
communing with their most high who had been 
for many ages past and were so successfully lead- 


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ing their armies in exterminating all who opposed 
them in many lands and nations, 

The women slaves, the property of the Church 
dignitaries, had been ordered to clean and garnish 
the inner chamber where the committee was to 
meet to hear the final report of the joint commit¬ 
tee of both State and Church in framing their 
final answer to them, declared to be the most blas¬ 
phemous of all accursed by their most high of wo¬ 
man kind, Inclusia, who had defiled their sacred 

temple by her most brazen intrusion into the or¬ 
dinance committed to the dignitaries of the 

Church, to say, who should be the fathers of their 
children, both mothers and daughters, whether 
they had husbands or not. 

The committee now is guided by trusted 

guards who are ever watchful day and night, into 
the inner sanctuary. The dignitary of the Church 
was made the Committee chairman with the Chief 
of State to sit at his left hand. Then another com¬ 
plete search was instituted within this holy of 
holies for spies in hiding. A special officer was 
sent to the quarters where the women belonging 
to the Church dignitaries lived, to see that each 
and every one of them were in their appointed 
places, with this decree that they were to remain 
there until notified that they would be permitted 
to leave them under penalty of three months 7 
solitary confinement in the offenders’ prison. A 
double guard was stationed at every entrance way 
into this inner chamber, the secret way of escape 
was revealed to this committee and unlocked so 
that the papers and documents of this committee 
could not be captured and carried away by force. 
All things now being made secure, the second dig¬ 
nitary of the Church was empowered to read the 

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findings of these supreme rulers of the lands of 
the whole earth and the people thereon. He read 
as follows: 

“1st We have but one question to answer; 
asked by that brazen-faced Inclusian, who disturbed 
our highest and most holy dignitary in his most 
solemn devotional exercises by rising to her feet 
and asking the following most blasphemous and 
immoral question in the face of all these digni¬ 
taries of the Church and the high officers of State, 
charging them thus: 'You have drafted our sons 
and husbands and slaughtered them like beasts in 
a slaughterhouse, and there are no husbands for 
our fair daughters, in what manner shall our 
daughters become mothers?’ We answer boldly 
and authoritatively that we will draft the fairest 
of all their daughters to be our concubine wives 
who will bear at our command or suffer death, 
and all concubine wives shall provide for them¬ 
selves and these bastard children and pay a stip¬ 
ulated amount into the Church’s sacred funds and 
a like amount into the funds for the State for the 
mainteance of our army which is fighting for our 
most high and holy one and the spread of his 
Church in all lands. 

"2nd. We have already put into our holy or¬ 
dinances, in our revealed book, this divine excep¬ 
tion, fo;r all our dignitaries and their officiating 
officers that to be the father of any number of 
children with any of these so-numerous daughters 
is no sin, to us, in authority, but we allow the 
State to make it a sin and a crime outside the 
holy bonds of matrimony under the directions of 
the Church. This will provide a large revenue 
for the support of the State’s armies. 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OP PROSPERITY 

3rd. We will deny the State the authority to 
issue money in any quantities that would permit 
the employment of our bond' women, concubine- 
wives or their daughters, to receive pay fo;r their 
work in any department whatever that would pro¬ 
vide them and their daughters with but a scant 
living in time of peace and much less in time of 
war, with a small weekly payment to the; Church 
and a larger exaction by the State in time of war. 
And we will see to it that there is war most of 
the time. 

“4th. We will deny the State the authority 
to issue money in any such amounts as would en¬ 
able the people to pay their debts for if the peo¬ 
ple who are not with us, were out of debt that 
would enable these, our bond women, to be better 
paid, and form an alliance with these brazen, im¬ 
moral women outside our immediate control, and 
become officers in the State and destroy our most 
ancient and most holy divine institution now or 
ever can be upon the earth, controlled by us, men, 
of the most high for his highest glory and the 
ever remembrance of his servants who are born 
in the sheds for the beasts by daughters of bond- 
women unknown to us in high authority—and 
there is now a need for many more similar births 
to save these lost and immoral bastard sons who 
frequent the abodes of the State’s portion of the 
numerous daughters who many times outnumber 
their sons after their term of service in the army 
of our most high. All these women we have pro¬ 
nounced wholly lost to us, as they neither work 
for the Church, bear children for the army or pay 
us Church dues, which is the only means by which 
the Church of the most high can sustain his rule 
on earth. 


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“5th. We deny all women this, our holy 
privilege of preaching our most high’s revealed 
word, to them, by us in any devotional service. 

“6th. We deny the State the authority to 
permit any woman to practise law or hold the 
sacred office of Judge in the State, or in any coun¬ 
try in the world. 

“7th. We absolutely and emphatically will 
not permit any school to exist, in any country of 
all our most high’s earth, to teach, any woman or 
their daughters our once most sacred profession, 
that of healing the sick and attending at the birth 
of our most holy ones begotten under our supervi¬ 
sion and divine authority. 

“8th. Woman’s place and position in all 
things must be subject to the direction of her hus¬ 
band, and we have unanimously agreed to adopt 
this ordinance and teach them to obey it. ‘If the 
wife wants to know anything, she must ask her 
husband. ’ ’ 

“9th. Slaves, obey your masters. 

“10th. All children born out of wedlock not 
sanctioned and solemnized by officers of the 
Church shall be known as bastard and both moth¬ 
er and child’ disinherited while on earth or with 
our most high. This will always keep the Church 
and State fully supplied with both-men and wo¬ 
men who will work for us without wage or hope 
of reward. 

“11th. The State shall command all women to 
go forth and multiply and replenish the earth. 
This will compel the millions to devote their lives 
in toil for the sole benefit of us who are in con¬ 
trol. 

“12th. The Church will control the schools 
and do the teaching. It will allow the State to 


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issue all the money in very limited quantities so 
as not to permit the unruly in the church teach¬ 
ing to become independent or self-sustaining so 
that they would want to have anything to do or 
say in either religious or political affairs. 

“13th. No bastard will be permitted to hold 
.office in any state. 

“14th. All ordinances here passed shall be 
kept secret from all women, and only be an¬ 
nounced when occasion requires it by the high 
dignitaries of the Church. 

“15th. It is the special province of the 
Church to secure all the money they can from all 
people by begging for it under any provocation 
they' may please to proclaim. 

“16th. The Church will authorize the State 
to levy and collect large sums of money, making 
the burdens of all mothers a most severe lot which 
will keep them from owning a home in which to 
bear their children which are begotten in sin and 
iniquity. 

“17th. This secret body reserves the right 
to state anything we see fit in response to any 
and all questions asked any of us as to where or 
how these ordinances came into our possession and 
whatever answer one o£ us makes, all the mem¬ 
bers will say: 'He spoke the truth.’ This will give 
unity to our teachings and solemnity to our most 
dignified offices. 

, ’“18th. I now move that we adjourn this most 
divine gathering and return at the call of our 
most high dignitary for our further instructions, 
without discussion here or outside this most holy 
inner temple where none but the select few can 
ever enter. The committee arose, passing out one 
at a time, through the secret passage way leading 


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only the optimist wins 

some distance from the hall into a public building 
which led out to the public streets.’' 

The foregoing acts are the rules that have 
been followed for the eons of ages which have 
produced all the poverty, hunger and want ever 
upon the earth, and has made the mother and her 
child homeless in their own country. 

The speech of Inclusia to the mothers and 
daughters under that ancient patriachal religio- 
government that had existed, in China, where it 
originated, and had been the rule of many dis¬ 
tinct dynasties that had come and gone, and was 
at its height when Fling Wall C'ong decided to 
surround all China with a massive wall that would 
protect their religio-governmlent which had so 
completely subjugated the mother and all mothers 
to the will and control of their ruling tribal secret 
session who claimed to be in communication with 
their most high, which only meant that the stars 
or planets were the guides of all things upon the 
earth because they shined at night. 

Inclusia tells you much more for your en¬ 
lightenment and liberation than was ever given 
by all the Jewish prophets in their religio-govern- 
mental teachings which controlled the leading civ- 
iliaztions of the earth for more than two thou¬ 
sand years. 

By traditional history you can read of its 
proclaimed founder, Abraham, in a frenzied fury 
sending his bond-woman, Hager, with her infant 
bastard child afterwards called Ishmael, into a 
strange land without food or shelter, for various 
reasons, to him and this trio secret combine, 
the principal one given was that Sarah, his first 
wife of a series, had taken sweepstakes of all for¬ 
mer records and borne him a child at so great an 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 


age, which was so active that a few hours after his 
birth he was displaying wonderful things and 
Sarah arose with the strength unequalled before 
and had everything smack span clean, while the 
child, yet unnamed was examining the register of 
Abraham’s numerous concubine-wives and the 
enormous entries of names of their bastard chil¬ 
dren, when Sarah says to her so precocious child, 
“What art thee doing, my son of Abrahami?” The 
child, who was only a few hours from delivery, 
answered his mother, saying: “I am getting ready 
to offer my protest to m)y father Abraham to any 
more encumbering of these records with fictitious 
names of bastard children whose mothers are 
strangers to me.” On hearing this thing, Sarah 
put on the skillet to fry beefsteak and onions for 
Abraham and be ready to make her demand that 
Hager be dismissed and exported by excommuni¬ 
cation and the expunging of the records that her 
son of only so tender hours had been experting 
for clerical errors and the juggling of funds, which 
must be discontinued henceforth. You can read 
of King David with his right smart chance of 
these concubine wives, and Solomon, son of David, 
who followed his father, as King of the Jews, with 
an enrollment in three books with 500 concubine 
wives in each book or series, making in all 1500 
wives and concubine-wives, and at the end of his 
so successful reign of drafting the fairest daugh¬ 
ters from all the mothers of all the Jews, he is 
quoted as saying that this is all vanity and vex¬ 
ation for none of all this large list could mix his 
spirits to his satisfaction, so he refused to be 
buncoed any longer and resigned his job. And 
so has ended the career of all these most high 
star-gazers from China to Lost Atlantus, from 


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Atlantus to Egypt and Peru in South America, 
from Peru and Egypt to India and Greece, with 
Jewish Babylonia vieing with one another in their 
subjugation of all mothers to the adopted rule of 
that secret trio of Religion and State and all de¬ 
caying with that same disease called leprosy. From 
Babylon and Greece to Rome, whose founders 
through trickery captured from the surrounding 
tribes of the then-called barbarians, their fairest 
daughters and immediately invoked the rule of that 
same secret trio of religion and State, and after 
800 years of the subjugation of mother and daugh¬ 
ter, and their daughters in providing for govern¬ 
ment and Church, sending their sons to the army 
and their daughters to be debauched by the rul¬ 
ing forces who constantly demanded of them 
greater sacrifices for both State and Church than 
any civiliation preceding them. From Rome to 
Europe, and Europe back to America and the 
battle is still raging, but with the cheering thought 
in the newest news, that the day for the Emanci¬ 
pation of Mother and Child is at hand, when the 
earth will be redeemed from its long night of de¬ 
ceptive race teachings iu America, a land of end¬ 
less opportunities, which answers to the so-clearly 
described thought expressed by that far-away In- 
clusia of ancient Greece, followed by that ever- 
fertile-brained Aspatia, who though a barbarian, 
according to the laws of the Athenians, yet the 
peer of them all, who had preceded her. She was 
the superior of men of both State and Church in 
science, law and oratory. It was Aspatia who 
was the teacher and trainer of Socrates and Peri¬ 
cles, whose thoughts are the basis of the Declara¬ 
tion of America’s discovery, being the land of 
the free and the home of the brave. It was 


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through the teachings of Socrates that led’ Plato 
to found the school of all medieval and modern 
civiliaztions and has had no equal in depth of re¬ 
search into the powers man posseses innately. 

It was from the teachings of Plato that evelv- 
ed the choicest flower of the motherly mother in 
the person of Hypatia, who shines out as the lu¬ 
minary in ' conscious motherhood and expresses 
without comparison the climax in the attainment 
of mothers’ inherent power to continually repro¬ 
duce herself in objective form in continuous youth 
and beauty and at the same time lead all her com¬ 
petitors in the attainment as a mathmetician, law¬ 
yer and the science of governments, superiority in 
its teachings to that of the church of her time 
which so enraged the then Church advocates to 
such a pitch that they mobbed her in her defense¬ 
less and daily pursuit as a teacher and lecturer 
for not submitting to the orders of the secret trio 
convening in the early days of Ancient Greece. 
The assassination of Hypatia was ordered from 
the decrees entered centuries before Aspatia open¬ 
ed her school in Athens, the center of the then 
known world, fo;r education. Hypatia’s teachings 
are liberating millions of over-burdened mothers 
who are toiling for food for her homeless child 
in all lands and nations of the earth. 

It was the annullment of the law of that se¬ 
cret trio, which forced Cleopatra of Egypt to 
marry her brother of 18 years of age, according 
to her father’s will, that she might inherit her 
portion of the government, and on the death of 
this brother-husband, the will of her father com¬ 
pelled her to marry her younger brother of 11 
years. This was the climax and the end of the 
first law of that secret trio of Church and State 

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which had been enforced upon all mothers and their 
daughters through all the ages up to her time. 
To break that law Cleopatra had to murder her 
younger brother-husband of 11 years of age. She 
was compelled to marry him and her only hope of 
freedom for herself and all daughters was in the 
act of her taking the life of her 11-year-old 
brother-husband who by the law she must obey. 
Thus, the reader will begin to see, possibly for 
the first time, what the bondage of mother and 
daughter has been during all these centuries by 
the combined rule of Church and State, in its 
teachings, rulings and decisions. 

America, this land we now occupy, which had 
been governed by many peoples and nations, teach¬ 
ing and practising these same laws, long centuries 
before that little mother Isabella, who as Queen 
of all the Spainsh mothers and daughters of her 
nation, saw in the Columbus plan of discovery a 
hope for the mothers and daughters of today. She 
it was that pledged her all then accumulated val¬ 
uables that new conditions in government might 
induce the ruling forces to liberate the mother 
and child. 

She was followed by Elizabeth Winston of Eng¬ 
land, who put her fortune on the altar as a sacri¬ 
fice to build, equip and sail the historic Mayflower 
and landed in on the then bleak and desolate 
shores of the Atlantic at Plymouth Rock, with its 
loaded cabins and decks with oppressed mothers 
and daughters of the then civilized England, who 
in their loneliness sang songs of home and free¬ 
dom for their sons and daughters, only to be fol¬ 
lowed with the infamous teachings of the trio 
which has made all nations’ mothers and their 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 


daughters the burden bearers of both Church and 
State. 

Two hundred and twenty-seven years of con¬ 
tinuous toil for mothers and daughters on the 
shores of America had been endured, with all their 
schools and colleges and not a single daughter 
had ever been admitted to a college in this coun¬ 
try wthere she could study to practice law, mathe¬ 
matics, preaching o;r medicine. It was in 1847 
that Lucy Stone of Massachusetts dared to meet 
this trio barricaded decree against mother and 
daughter, by asking her father to let her go to 
college and be educated with her brothers. When 
he answered, “No, it is only for you to learn how 
to cook for a husband,” she answered. “It is an 
education I want and not a husband.” When her 
lather replied, “Lucy, you are crazy and I never 
want to hear you speak of college or education 
again!” Her father’s answer never daunted this 
courageous daughter. She earned some money 
and then began to ask to be admitted as a stu¬ 
dent in the colleges of her own State but they all 
refused her. She finally was admitted to a little 
college at Oberland, Ohio. She was disinherited 
by her father and her brothers would not asso¬ 
ciate with heir. She found two sisters in Oberland 
who occupied a single room who took her in with 
them and the three occupied one room and one 
bed, where Lucy, the despised at home and at the 
college by men of the Church and State. Lucy 
studied and between recitations earned a scant 
living for three years. When graduation day 
came she was the peer of all the. men and stu¬ 
dents of her class. Lucy Stone had broken the 
law of this ancient trio, and the colleges of the 

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United States must open their doors to daughters 
and sons of mothers alike. 

Antoinette Brown, who followed Lucy Stone 
to Oberland College, Ohio, and asked to be admit¬ 
ted as a student in the theological class, after some 
delays was finally enrolled. She was looked upon 
as a disgrace to the college and the trio would 
never sanction a woman preacher, but Antoinette 
Brown was there for a purpose that law must be 
broken. Many recitations in the class room were 
disheartening to their Biblical theories 'but An¬ 
ti onette was never defeated. When graduation 
day came, the faculty told her she could write 
an essay but she would not be permitted to read 
it; one of the Church dignitaries would read it for 
her. Her answer was, "I will write it if you will 
assure me it will be read as I write it.” This was 
refused her, so she did not write the essay. They 
told her she could have a diploma but she should 
never be licensed to preach. Antoinette Brown 
then said: “Give m!e my diploma and I will attend 
to the preaching.” She preached for many years. 
Thus, one by one, those old secret session ordin¬ 
ances have crumbled before mother’s onward 
inarch in mental unfoldment. 

It was Elizabeth Blackwell who was to invade 
the inner sacred sanctuary of the centuries’ old 
medical schools in America, with their closed and 
barred doors against mothers and daughters en¬ 
tering therein to learn of the high hypocrasies 
taught in the mfedical colleges, in the giving of 
drugs and their effect upon the tissues and the 
whole mechanism, of the human body so long pro¬ 
tected by both Church and State since their an¬ 
cient secret trio session. After being refused en¬ 
trance into all the medical colleges of the United 


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States and chided for her upwomanly acts, for 
attempting to follow such an immoral profession, 
the medical students of a college at Geneva, New 
York, thinking it a great joke, voted a majority 
of them to admit her into their class then num¬ 
bering 446, and notified her that she could enter 
the medical college of Geneva, New York. On 
receiving the notice of her acceptance she pre¬ 
sented herself for enrollment and began her stu¬ 
dies. When the whole class and the professors 
with the citizens of the town fumed themselves 
into a head of jack-asses, hooted at her, hired 
hoodlum boys to go on the streets and salute her 
as “A She Doctor” and throw mud on her while 
she went to and from the class room. Elizabeth 
Blackwell had all the courage of conscious mother¬ 
hood and knowing this, she knew no defeat. She 
won a triumph more glorious for the emancipation 
of the mother and child from those drug fiend de¬ 
stroyers who have lived’ for all these centuries sup¬ 
ported from the mother’s toil, and the miseries in 
which the daughters have been taught to destroy 
themselves to meet the demands of both State and 
church. 

Elizabeth Blackwell won in the class room. She 
earned her diploma and received it. Her class¬ 
mates, numbering 446, all men, her professors all 
men, looked at her in amazement, saying what man¬ 
ner of woman is this Elizabeth Blackwell, who has 
achieved such a victory as none of us can hope to 
equal and had to associate with us like a lone fawn 
surrounded by us, a herd of jack-asses, in a single 
enclosed pasture, and continually braying at her 
and with those disheartening surroundings, Eliza¬ 
beth Blackwell has come out more than conqueror? 

Jt was Elizabeth Blackwell as a student in a 
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medical college who prepared the fuse that ignited 
the tanks of dynamite (drags) and blew them np 
and scattered them: back to their original elements, 
and paved the way for dragless healing which will 
build a race of human beings where the mother 
and the daughter may live in homes with plenty 
in peace and comfort. 

On hearing the news of Elizabeth Blackwell’s 
achievements, the medical colleges of the country 
held a secret session and investigated into the acts 
of the medical board of directors at Geneva, New 
York, as to Elizabeth Blackwell’s ability to master 
the course of study, which was a surprise and a 
chigrin to the medical fraternity in hearing the 
facts. They voted unanimously to close the doors 
and bar them, so as to forever exclude women hence¬ 
forth and forever from the privilege of studying 
medicine under the direction of the medical union 
trust, but the die was cast and. the work was done 
and never could be undone for mother and daugh¬ 
ter had now control of the key that had locked 
them in as prisoners and condemned to toil, in 
misery and want to maintain the ordinance of that 
ancient trio that no woman should ever be per¬ 
mitted to practice midicine in any land or nation. 
Single handed and’ alone, Elizabeth Blackwell 
made her way into the last of that trio’s secret 
anchor-ship, and with a giant and fertile brain 
faced the bulls and bears of State and the tigers 
and hyenas of Church who lead the mobs, and 
tired a mental torpedo that sent to the waste places 
of the earth, where ignorance is worshipped, that 
most infamous ordinance denying woman the priv¬ 
ilege to study and learn how to care for the sick 
and afflicted when MOTHER IS THE HEALER. 
And yet prohibited fromi practising by statute 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 


law. Mother is not to be daunted or blocked by 
special legislation for she is invention. When 
Mary Baker Eddy catches the mental messages 
from the universe beyond the trio’s control as they 
pass between Church and State, and she an¬ 
nounced her healing without drugs or the skapel, 
and opens her college, but the trio is on her track 
while she is persecuted by both Church and State, 
but this does not discourage mother, although she 
meets many breakers on her way, but mother 
will win, and win she must, though she retreats 
to the shelters of the eves of the Church, and* you 
know the result. She healed without drugs, but 
not all her patients. A nation is moved and there 
is confusion, and at the very entrance of the so- 
long secured barricaded inner working of both 
Church and State was there a breaking away 
from this trio’s ordinances. When in the midst 
of all this seeming confusion comes Helen Wil- 
mans, the peer in the early dawning of the 20th 
century, who became the expert mental trans¬ 
mitter and receiver in one unbroken magnet who 
most successfully heals many patients that no 
other system ever established and taught, was 
capable of doing with their system, which she 
named Mental Science Healing. She could heal 
without being in miles or even hundreds and thou¬ 
sands of miles distant from; the sick and afflicted 
men, women and children who were calling on her 
from all quarters of the inhabitable globe. Old 
things were passing away and the new was bring¬ 
ing the world into a glory and the possession of 
the power of self-healing which no people before 
us had ever possessed and was able to use. 

Though the wires were invisible, healing mes¬ 
sages could be safely and' accurately transmitted 

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by Helen Wilmans and received by her patients 
whenever located on land or sea. Helen Wilmans 
was a mother, optimistic philanthropist, for the 
healing of the world. She called Inclusia, who 
answered instantly saying, “Helen Wilmans, 
mother of Healers, in your healing the mothers 
and daughters of the earth will be freed!” She 
then called Aspatia, who answered in such elo¬ 
quence that the world was not mistaken, for the 
dawn of better things was really here. Helen then 
called Hypatia, whose logic in cell building in 
perpetuity and never-ending on the earth fairly 
lifted Helen to the domes of the universe, and 
there was no mathematical inaccuracies, for Hy¬ 
patia was the mathematician. Helen then called 
the maligned, battle-scarred and asp-stung Cleo- 
jatra, who immediately replied, “Be true to 
mother and daughter, for the trio enslavers of 
the ages are on your track, the principles of the 
declaration at the birth of the American Repub¬ 
lic have been trampled under foot; but the mother 
and her child will outlive all their oppressors.” 
Helen then called Isabella, who answered, saying: 
“America has wealth inexhaustible where mother 
and child can possess home, food and comfort as 
no other land has been able to provide. There 
is wealth for all the races of mothers.” 

Helen then called Elizabeth Blackwell, who was 
on the wires, and answered: “Mother Healer, your 
cause was my cause, and the trio’s are setting 
their traps for you, but the mother and daughter 
will be freed. Be true to thine own law for all 
healing is within the one who desires to be heal¬ 
ed. The earth will stand forever but tradition 
and deception in both Church and State combining 
to make mother the burden bearer for them both 


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EMPLOYMENT OF THE MILLIONS 

will be dissolved’ in America; health is only the 
product of conscious understanding in the law of 
uniformity through selection in growth and mother 
is the selection of the child in objectifying.” 

Where,oh where, does that man live who does 
not know that his mother and he, as a child, has 
suffered these wrongs long enough; and that on 
November next on national election morn, he will 
go to the polls and vote to free all mothers’ homes 
from all taxation fee, in every form, whether 
the sun shines or it storms. 

Oh, what will the mothers do who read this 
lesson through and through and think just one 
thought for mother and child, whether she lives 
in a palace, a hovel or roams in the wilds, to en¬ 
courage all voters to vote for me that I and my 
child may own a home from taxes free, where I 
may teach him and her our nation’s pride that 
the homes of all mothers, the nation wide, are 
entered free on the tax collector’s guide, and we 
are now permitted to live on the land above the 
tide. 

Hear us now and hear us then, 

All you loyal sons and men. 

When by ’your votes our homes are freed, 

And you and I and all law agreed. 


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The motives and high ideals that actuated the 
investment of Elizabeth Winston in equipping the-. 
Mayflower to bring a large number of optimistic 
men and women to America so as to prove their 
ideals, still lives in the growing and expanding 
thoughts of the American Republic. Although 300 
years has circled away according to record no time 
has been lost and no defeat has been recorded since 
that historic • ship landed its all optimistic home¬ 
seeking voyagers to this land of endless oppor¬ 
tunities. 

All ideals are only valuable when put into 
practical operation. 

Worth can only be estimated by the unthink¬ 
ing masses when made into things- of practical use. 

The then far-away shores of uncivilized Amer¬ 
ica are now the food center for stricken and de¬ 
caying governmental theories of pessimistic Euro¬ 
pean system of special privileges through their 
class law of entailment. 

The pessimistic teaching of the anti-deluvian 
world' having been adopted by all governments of 
Europe, there has followed nothing but dogmatic 
wars for supremacy of rulership. 

While Europe was constantly engaged in these 
wars with one another and with a strict censorship 
upon all advancement in idealistic growth on the 
European continent, men and women everywhere 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 


were driven to America to the land then known 
as the uncivilized. America then became the only 
harbor upon the earth where all men and women 
with an optimistic tendency were permitted to 
think and speak their own thoughts. Thus Amer¬ 
ica was nicknamed as the land of the free by the 
ruling forces of Europe. 

All shades of idealistic thinkers at once ac¬ 
cepted this new nick name given them by the pes¬ 
simistic rulers and their advocates in all Europe. 
Thus America was. conceded to be free from the 
tyrannical rule of the Pagan-Christian teaching of 
the then called Old World or a world where ad¬ 
vancement was prohibited and decay was on the 
thrones. 

Every oppressive act, whether it was that of 
thought or deed in Europe, added to the mental 
word freedom in America. Thus so much depend¬ 
ence was placed in the meaning of the word free¬ 
dom, that many practical things were neglected 
in the enactment of the administrative laws of 
this in sentimental name only called a free gov¬ 
ernment. 

It has always been the rule that where the 
idealist did not make his or her ideas things of 
use, that the unthinking masses inevitably took 
sides with the pessimistic teachings of the race. 

I find that from the very foundation of this 
Republic that the one and only sure power used 
in all Europe to defeat the freedom of the people 
there was engrafted into the laws of this Repub¬ 
lic at its very inception and that what all Europe 
had so persistently fastened upon all her nations 
was such laws as could only result in the savagery 
of war as is now being enacted by the masses of 


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Europe in their self-disintegration on their many 
fields of human carnage. 

All the oppressed, starving, stricken and de¬ 
feated in all Europe are now lisping as of old, 
“Oh, for a land of the free!” I find that the very 
individuals who use the word freedom in thousands 
of instances never think that to be able to become 
the recipients of this freedom they must each be 
a law-maker, judge and executor. By these terms 
I mean that freedom is not an epithet, neither is 
it a nickname now, but is in its innate entity all 
that sentiment has given to it. But to be enjoyed 
and possessed by any people and made lasting 
it has to become practical and must be the ruling 
law of the nation. Money is now the' only thing 
lacking in this nation to bring about that free¬ 
dom that the races of man have so long been look¬ 
ing for, in their slow but upward climb to national 
and individual freedom. The people of this Na- 
tion are the only people upon the earth who are 
in a position now to establish their absolute finan¬ 
cial freedom,. 

The optimist’s ideal freedom is now to become 
a reality with all the sentimental enjoyment to 
be a fixed and permanent reward to all who de¬ 
sire to live and let live all people who are or may 
become citizens of this Republic. 

The unemployed are to be given permanent 
employment. Tramps and beggars are to disap¬ 
pear as wisdom takes the place of ignorance in 
our halls of national legislation. 

Health is going to be the rule for all people 
who have studied diseases for the past centuries 
for they are now going to learn how to be healthy 
by understanding the law of their own individual 
growth. 

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EMPLOYMENT OF THE MILLIONS 


The so-called poor of this Nation are to be¬ 
come possessors of homes of comfort and plenty. 

The rich will become in their homes and busi¬ 
ness life absolutely secure. 

The race wars of the ages are no more to be 
a cause for the declaration of war by the people 
of this free Republic. 

The unsanitary tenements are to be replaced 
by substantial and healthy dwellings for a free 
people. 

The congested centers in our great cities are 
to be relieved through the rapid development of 
streets, roads, boulevards and thoroughfares ex¬ 
tending out in the rural homes by auto and rapid 
transportation facilities. The choicest locations for 
homes for all who desire the best of this most 
bounteous earth will be established in the suburbs 
and country adjoining the large cities. 

The following inquiries we have been sending 
out to learn how many there are who want to be 
free and independent ? Where are the people to be 
found who will be free? 

To what nation are we to go to find a people 
who are the best fitted by sentiment, name and 
education to be a free people? 

What must the citizens know to be possessors 
of all that the word, freedom in sentiment implies? 

When will I be a free man or woman? What 
will this Nation do first to prove to the pessimis¬ 
tic world that the United States of America is in 
fact a free Nation and that all her people are in 
possession of their individual liberty ? 

When the foreging questions have been given 
a full and complete answer to each and all of 
them and as * many more as the reader desires to 


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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


ask, our Nation and individuals will be in posses¬ 
sion of their own freedom. 

Every optimist who reads this book will un¬ 
derstand the full meaning and worth of every 
optimistic person’s own thoughts, and all who want 
to possess the results of true optimism will read 
and re-read these pages until the unreal or senti¬ 
mental freedom, advocate is mentally reconstructed 
or made over from a race pessimist into an opti¬ 
mistic posessor of his or her own personal and 
national liberty to think, talk, speak, write or vote 
unrestricted freedom into the possession of the 
most stubborn pessimist that ever set foot upon 
American soil. A government where the true 
mathematical solution is the only guide for the 
enactment of every law is the only government 
that can ever maintain its freedom. 

The poverty of the whole earth is the direct 
result of the pessimistic law governing natious. 

It was in the famine of money which pror 
duced the curses of debts and these enforced debts 
which produce only poverty and want, that was 
the cause of the disintegration and fall of all an¬ 
cient nations, and it is these financial laws of an¬ 
tiquity fostered upon modern Europe which is now 
in its titanic struggle of want and dissolution. 

The optimist who has foresight and reason 
mathematically ballanced has no moments to spend 
figuring out the cause for the inhuman slaughter 
now going on by once friendly nations in that all 
proud and productive Europe. 

Every war and all wars that have blackened 
the pages of all history are from the one source 
and the same law, while all the glimpses of a real 
freedom that man has ever witnessed were by 
those enactments of law that gave* a cash con- 
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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 


sid’eration at the completion of the contract or in 
other words paid cash to all producers and cre¬ 
ated no debts of entail for coming posterity to 
struggle, toil, stint and starve to pay interest 
(taxes) on debts that were contracted by a lot of 
ignorant officials on financial law, who were elected 
by a lot of pessimistic party voters who study 
only effect and continued to vote entailing more 
debts, calling for more interest, and never paying 
but kept continually funding and refunding both 
interest and principal, promising to pay in gold 
coin, that which the people neither had or pro¬ 
duced in peace or in war. It is this law of en¬ 
tailing . of debts that is devouring Europe in this 
carnival of human slaughter. 

The United States has been voted into this 
colossal plot of debt entailment and self-slaughter 
is the declaration of the pessimistic citizen and 
alien alike. 

The cry of the Macedonians of old is now 
heard in all walks of life. 

Pretending optimistic newspapers in America 
and Europe are the means by which beggary and 
want are made respectable, to aid the gold basis 
fraud advocate to be continually kept in office by 
mystifying their already debt cursed readers. 

In, by and through the adoption from Europe 
of this law of the entailment of debts, we have 
already filled this land of endless supply for all 
her people, while tramps, beggars and paupers 
are multiplying at an equal ration to the ever- 
increasing of the gold bearing debts of this once 
free people. 

The unemployed grow in greater numbers 
year by year just as the debts and demands of 
the government for more taxes (tariffs) are lev- 

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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


ied upon corporations and industries in all pro¬ 
ductive lines. The millions of the earth who were 
once self-sustaining are now enrolling as absolute 
dependents. 

The cry and want in the long centuries of 
the ages, of their all-absorbing debt entailment is 
now becoming real in this supposed land of the 
free, and the only relief now offered is to follow 
in the footsteps of all departed nations as they 
are doing in modern Europe, to become a nation 
of beggars in their own country. 

The Y. W. C. A. and the Y. Ml C. A., institu¬ 
tions sustained by begging, are advertising to the 
world that they have no positions for the unem¬ 
ployed 

The labor unions are continually demanding 
an increase in wages and a reduction in the num¬ 
ber of hours for a day’s work, with one half of 
their membership out of work or on the tramp, 
for the sole reason that the corporations and man¬ 
ufacturers are in the same fix that this 1915 ad¬ 
ministration of the United States government is 
in which it has no money to carry on their legiti¬ 
mate business, each and' all of them having be¬ 
come self-mystified in the European gold basis 
which means in toto nothing but debt entailments 
or credit system. 

The banker and loan companies are following 
the course of the Babylonians by increasing their 
rates of interest and doubling their commissions 
for securing loans, and money is so secluded that 
these rates will not induce these gold basis advo¬ 
cates to alldw the people to continue business in 
this so-called free America. 

Our President congratulates his son-in-law, 
Secretary McAdoo, on their so successfully launch- 


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EMPLOYMENT OF THE MILLIONS 


mg of the “ Three-in-One” $20,000,000,000 pawn 
shops for the already debt cursed bankers of 
America who are out of money, like our govern¬ 
ment, the railroad companies, and all employers of 
labor throughout this Nation, with a number ,of 
auxiliary banks as trumps, of all the three balled 
credit shops in America. At the, same time our 
President wants to make the people think he is an 
optimist because his Congress has been able to 
drain the United States Treasury through a party 
entailed traditional theory, and has also succeeded 
in taxing all the first and second-hand seating ca¬ 
pacity in the five-cent show halls in the Nation 
to make up a deficiency of $107,000,000 in Gov¬ 
ernment revenues in one and one-half years of 
tariff tinkering, instead of using the Constitution 
of this Nation and issuing money direct to the 
people. The bankers of this Nation, Mr. Presi¬ 
dent, will be all right as soon as the people of 
this Nation have money issued to them direct from 
their own Government and not be compelled to 
go to the exclusive privileged few moneyless bank¬ 
ers who have gathered up vast quantities of debts 
* the people have. been compelled to contract, and 
these moneyless bankers can take these debts of 
- the people to one of your specially selected pawn 
shops and there deposit only debts of the people. 
When this is done then your pawn shop will have 
issued to these moneyless bankers another scrip 
which is another debt for which the pawn shop 
government regional bank, has to be paid an¬ 
other interest for all this scrip the Government is¬ 
sues to the bankers; then this scrip can be brought 
back to the bankers’ private banks who had no 
money and reloaned back to the people at a still 
higher rate of interest. Mr. President, this is only 


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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


a deceptive procedure of the European law of debt 
ent ailment, 

Mr. President, I cannot see what your Con¬ 
gress was doing all this last session (Session of 
1914) for the relief of the people. I admit that 
these pawn shops will help to keep a few bankers 
from immediate failure because they can get a 
scrip issued to them on debts and force their de¬ 
positors to take this scrip even though they had 
deposited the race sacred gold coin with these 
bankers. Mr. President, why did you not allow 
the railroad corporations, cotton growers, wheat 
and all farm producers, the mining and manu¬ 
facturing and all productive industries to deposit 
debts (they all have plenty of them) and have 
these Government pawn shops issue a like scrip to 
them that you have to these special moneyless 
bankers? Were not the railroad corporations as 
much a part of this Government as these few fav¬ 
ored moneyless bankers? Mr. President, I repeat, 
are not the cotton growers, wheat growers, meat 
growers, mining corporations and all producing, 
manufacturing, educational and all industrial or¬ 
ganizations as much entitled to protection from 
this illicit debt holding monopoly of European 
origin under the Constitution of this United States 
as a few non-productive banking corporations 
which must derive all their authority to do busi¬ 
ness from the same source that do these so-careful- 
ly selected banking corporations. Mr. President, 
I have been taught and have so understood that 
this was a people’s Government, but under this new 
banking law I find it is only a pawn shop banking 
Government and that for the very special few. 

Do you not realize, Mr. President, that when 
the intelligent people of this United States who 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 


are all mortgaged, then bonded many times and 
that each separate debt has kept increasing taxes 
until the people of this Government are going to 
wake up again as they did on November 3, 1914, 
when they sent out their subamrine torpedo bal¬ 
lots which knocked out the one hundred and 
twenty majority of those old and worn out po¬ 
litical gold basis pawn shop making hulks into the 
political sea of “Where Am I At?” Mr. Goldbasis 
frauds. 

These submarine torpedo ballot ships re¬ 
turned to port without a tremor or a disturbed 
nerve center, and will take time to make a com¬ 
plete finish of all these old frauds of rotten bot¬ 
tomed, whiskey-soaked, specieless basis fraud's on 
November, 1916, who have imposed their most he- 
nious of all human crimes upon the ignorant and 
deceivable masses of the human race ever since 
government was placed in the hands of the de¬ 
scendants of the school of Aninias who had been 
being for ages to the people to save the reputa¬ 
tion of his.political party who were rulers of his 
time and had been for eons of ages, and we still 
read further on in the scribes of the Kings where 
Judas Iscariot, the specie basis banker for the so¬ 
ciety of the Nazarenes, when called on for thous¬ 
ands of specie coins to redeem his promises to pay 
in coin could not scratch up but thirty pieces. This 
so enraged the people who held many thousands 
of his promises to pay in specie, that he ran away 
from his pursuers and in the race he threw himself 
upon the rocks and bursted out his fraudulent 
bowels which raised such an offensive smell as 
Christian Europe is not now able to purify or sup¬ 
press, who are the avowed followers of Aninias 
and his 444th thousandeth son-in-law, Judas Iscar- 


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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


iot, who was a direct descendant of the third heir 
of Aninias’ ninety-seventh wife of series three as 
recorded in the always failing specie basis bankers’ 
debt entailing frauds, perpetuated upon all the in¬ 
dustrious people of the United States as well as 
all nations of the earth. 

Mr. President, should you keep on with such 
legislation until the end of your present term of 
office you may succeed in tearing down all busi¬ 
ness that there is in this entire Nation with your 
traditional entailing of debts through your de¬ 
ceptive squaw finaciering. Optimism means an 
ever increising business. 

Your optimism when worked out, Mr. Presi¬ 
dent, is like a neighbor we had once in Illinois, 
who said in describing the symmetry of a new 
colt on its arrival, that it had a fine bow to its 
neck, but that the bow was on the under side of 
colt’s neck. 

Mr. President, your financial ledger shows the 
credit on the opposite column to be talking opti¬ 
mistic imanciering by actual mathematics. No 
number of rhetorically arranged words will change 
your pessimistic financial legislation. 

You should remember, Mr. President, that all 
pessimistic persons practice whistling when pass¬ 
ing or going through a race-graveyard. 

The supposition has always been to keep up the 
pessimistic courage of the whistler until he could 
get away from the home of the race dead. 

The only optimism that will ever win in the 
financiering of this Nation, Mr. President, will be by 
Congress issuing money, a full legal tender for all 
debts, both public and private, direct to the peo¬ 
ple of the United States without the intervention 
of any banking corporation whatsover. This is the 


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EMPLOYMENT OF 1 THE MILLIONS 

act of Congress and no other power can make it 
\ effective. 

The President of the United States who will 
be elected in 1916, will be ready to sign a bill 
which will supply the people of this United States 
of America with money sufficient in quantity to 
transact all the business of this energetic people 
with cash and no more bonds or mortgages are to 
be issued to be sold in Europe or any other coun¬ 
try. America is fully able and absolutely secure 
in establishing her own system of the financing of 
all her people by her own alread stored or ac¬ 
cumulated wealth. This is the optimism that will 
win in 1916. 


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Railroad Oppression 


It is now, as it has been in all ages, the old 
homely expression was that, “ Every dog has its 
day.” The builders of the magnificent and palatial 
railroad passenger coaches and trains, with so many 
conveniences and comforts, are among the greatest 
benefactors of this race. I have lived and enjoyed 
many of these comforts. I personally know of all 
these things I will here write about, for all the 
lailroads and their so vast cost have been built 
since I became a student of the science of Govern¬ 
ment. 

The railroad companies have done more to 
educate the people than all the schools and colleges 
of this Nation. Their instruction has been that of 
the practical, things that were useful, not only to 
the railroad owners but to every one who has lived 
in this age of the civilizing of the American con¬ 
tinent by railroad transportation companies. 

I have traveled on the railroads of the United 
States and Canada for the past thirty-five years. 
I have personally been cognizant of the facts that 
enter into the development of the vast empire west 
of the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, both 
south and north from the Gulf to Alaska, where 
so much unutilized wealth was literally brought 
into the very treasure house of all people who were 
willing to give an equivalent for values received. 

The builders of these lines of transportations 
have never been paid for their money invested, and 
their time and energy expended in this most laud- 

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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 


able of all undertakings to supply the actual needs 
and wants of mankind. 

The present owners of the railroads are not the 
men and women who furnished either the brain, 
muscle or money that built these all needful high¬ 
ways of commerce. The right, title and interest 
to the builders of the railroads has long since been 
outlawed, and their claims all absorbed and trans¬ 
ferred to men and combinations of men, who are 
neither producers, builders, or actual users of these 
all necessary means of transportation, which should 
lave ever remained the property of those all opti¬ 
mistic builders. 

The only reason why the first owners lost all 
their investments, labor and genius, their inalien¬ 
able and inherent right to possess and enjoy, was 
their own ignorance of the law of money, which 
they must secure from the people, for the use of 
the railroads. A railroad cannot run by any sys¬ 
tem of charity or donation party adjuncts. 

Rates for passenger and freight charges must 
be such as will pay all operating, expenses which 
includes the cost of construction and maintenance. 
These charges must be met by the users of the 
railroads. 

The reason why the builders and’ owners of 
all these railroads lost their investments was be¬ 
cause they began to take sides with the non-pro¬ 
ducers and against the producers and users of the 
already constructed roads. 

The producers who must-have a sufficient price 
for their products to be able to pay the increased 
railroad rates, were hounded and maligned by a 
hireling press through the dictation of a few 
money manipulators in the interest of European- 
Pagan money theories, which has pauperized all 


ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


civilizations upon the whole earth. The builders 
of these railroads not knowing the law, did oppress 
the people, though ignorantly it was done. So the 
people retaliated by state legislation in like op¬ 
pression to the railroad builders and owners. Dur¬ 
ing all this contention and oppressive legislation 
against the railroad corporations, by the people, 
the non-producers and users of the roads were 
maniuplating the finances by legislation both 
against the people and the owners of the railroads 
and to the utter amazement of all thoughtful per¬ 
sons the railroad owners took sides with the non- 
producers and non-users of the railroads against 
the people. Thus, the present reader can see that 
the old Chinese statement is a truism in this case. 
Here is the statement: “A house divided against 
itself must fall.” 

A railroad without someone to use it would 
be as useless as a confirmed saint would be to lo¬ 
cate in Satan’s biblical domain of endless hell fire. 
The .people and the railroad companies haven’t 
yet learned that the producer, consumer and the 
transporter are one, and until they do understand 
this scientific and logical truism the railroads and 
transportation companies will be oppressing them¬ 
selves by oppressing the users of the railroads, 
while these Pagan financiers will olwn them all. 

I traveled' on the Union Pacific railroad in 
Nebraska at the time of the most bitter railroad 
legislation to oppress the transportation compa¬ 
nies, by the people, whose only hope for a market 
for their vast yields of farm, productions could 
only reach a market over this road and the only 
then avalaible means of receiving exchange prod¬ 
ucts such as building material, clothing, groceries 
and fuel was over this same railroad, yet the own- 

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EMPLOYMENT OP THE MILLIONS 


ers and operators were determined to oppress the 
producers in every way that their scheming ma¬ 
nipulators could devise, and’ at the same time the 
‘ people were organizing to retaliate through the 
legislature in a most effectual way. All that , was 
ever accomplished in this long line of contentions 
• was to allow the non-producing and non-users of 
the railroads to absorb through a fictitious money 
system, the Union Pacific railroad, and take it 
away from the owners and builders and at the 
same time through the same financial system the 
farmjers and producers of Nebraska lost their prod¬ 
ucts and their farms as did all business industries 
carried on in that State. 

This oppressive railroad legislation has been 
kept up throughout this Nation, until there is now 
being piled up against every corporation almost 
daily court judgments for damages, fictitiously 
sworn to, amounting to thousands and hundred of 
thousands of dollars. All these decisions are called 
by a divided race teaching legitimate and lawful 
judgments against a corporation, in whose inter¬ 
est every citizen has a valid interest, although he 
or she has not one dollar of individual money in¬ 
vested in the construction or operation of the rail¬ 
roads. 

I never owned individually one dollar of stocks 
or bonds in any railroad or transportation com¬ 
pany, yet I have an interest in all of them for I 
am now and have been sending out and receiving 
mails from all parts of this continent and Europe. 
I am sending out and receiving goods and wares 
from many parts of the world, all of which must 
be carried by these different transportation com¬ 
panies. I ami eligible to travel upon any one of 
the different lines of transportation with the as- 

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surance of all the protection that can be provided 
for any person who purchases passage on either 
car, boat, or stage. What more could I ask? 
Whatever line I select to travel on is mine for the 
purpose of transportation either for my personal 
use or that of goods or commodities. In reciting 
my own case I recite the individual interest of 
every man, woman and child in this Nation. This 
being positively true, why should I be a party to 
oppress or ask these companies to carry either 
freight or passengers for less than the cost of con¬ 
struction and maintenance. I have been told many 
times that the railroad companies have and are still 
asking the people to pay more for the transpor¬ 
tation of products than the goods will bring when 
taken to the markets. This is also true, then, 
where is the remedy? It surely cannot bring a 
reduction of freight and passenger fares to break 
them up or reduce their incomes so they will be 
compelled to discharge legitimate and needful em¬ 
ployees. That will not increase the price of prod¬ 
ucts grown for the markets, neither will it reduce 
the cost of transportation if all the present rail¬ 
road corporation owners were legislated out of 
business and’ their roads confiscated. Neither will 
it aid the railroad corporations and transporta¬ 
tion, companies to discharge their trusted and com- 
pentent employees and refuse to carry the prod¬ 
ucts of the producers unless they give the rail¬ 
road companies all the products will bring in the 
markets and pay a bonus besides, which has been 
done many times in different parts of the United 
States. I have now recited the facts as they have 
existed for almost a half century and the condi¬ 
tions are no better now than they were at the com¬ 
mencement of this conflict by legislative oppres- 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 

sion of the railroads and a solution will never be 
reached by continuing these same tactics. 

A half a century has been spent in the legis¬ 
lative halls and the courts of the States and Nat¬ 
ion, at a cost of millions of dollars in money, 
which is all yet to be paid. This vast, expense is 
included in the appalling bonded and mortgaged 
indebtedness now held against the railroads and' 
the mbrtgaged and bonded indebtedness held 
against the Nation, States and all productive in¬ 
terests. 

I now shall talk to the railroad managers, 
operators and owners. Do you desire an amicable 
settlement of all this useless and unecessary con¬ 
tentions and the further increase of your indebted¬ 
ness which is now almost unbearable? Every sane 
woman and man will say, “Come, let us reason 
together.” This is the time for the thinkers to 
act. I shall talk to the railroad interests as a 
court of equity who are now to sit in judgment 
upon the acts and precedure of all railroad man¬ 
agers and owners who have preceded you, and the 
results, acts and decisions which are all before you, 
and the court decrees entered against you. (Here 
let me say to all users and consumers that every 
judgment entered’ against the transportation com¬ 
panies, is a judgment against you, which you must 
pay through an increase of fares and freight 
rates.) From this long conflict there has only 
been one result which was a special benefit to the 
non-user and owner of the railroads who are the 
manipulators of that mythical money system, who 
are able to draw more interest on increased loans 
to postpone the payment of legislative and court 
expenses. To the people let me say that every 
judgment you have secured against the railroads 


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and transportation corporations is only a decree 
against ourselves. All this fifty years of conflict 
has enabled the Pagan money coin basis advocates 
and their co-workers to fatten at the expense of the 
deluded railroad owners and builders whom they 
have used as tools to deceive and extort from the 
users and consumers all the increased productions 
of this ever-producing people. All the railroad 
owners, builders, the people, the users and the con¬ 
sumers have left, is a mortgaged and bonded debt 
of over $50,000,000,000, yet to be paid with an an¬ 
nual interest of over $3,000,000,000, both principal 
and interest to be paid out of the products of all 
the people who must use these railroads and trans¬ 
portation companies to market their productions. 
(When I speak of railroads I include street car 
systems as well as the steam roads.) 

There are many advocates of Government 
ownership who honestly think that the govern¬ 
ment could run them at less cost and expense to 
the people. Suppose we grant that this is true. 
Where will we go for the facts? Let us be hon¬ 
est in our statements and present only the facts 
in the points at issue, and the court of equity will 
render its judgment on the fact established by the 
history of all nations, States, cities, and all other 
subdivisions. 

The record is plain and undisputed that the 
Government of the United States, is and has been 
bonded' ever since its organization, showing con¬ 
clusively that there has never yet been an admin¬ 
istration, except that of John Quincy Adams, 
which was able to prove its business competency. 

Every State and Territory of this mighty Re¬ 
public is today bonded and mortgaged to this 
same mythical coin basis combine that owns the 

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EMPLOYMENT OF THE MILLIONS 


bonds which control the railroads and absorb the 
productions of the people. Every County in all * 
this vast territory of States is bonded and re¬ 
bonded to this same myth. Every school district 
is plastered all over with bonds, the homes of all 
the people are mortgaged and bonded to this myth¬ 
ical gold basis. 

I will recite the conditions as I find them un¬ 
der public administration. These are the facts: 
Every child of school age in this entire Nation 
sleeps in a mortgaged home at night and recites 
its lessons in a bonded school house in the day¬ 
light. 

Every Congressman and Senator who goes to 
Washington, D. C., to represent the people leaves 
a bonded State to occupy a seat in the capitol 
which is bonded, thus our national laws are con¬ 
tinually being enacted to increase the debts of the 
people. Every judge who presides in any court 
of this Nation, must render his decision in a bond¬ 
ed court house. Every man, woman and child that 
rides upon a street car, travels in a car and’ over 
a road is bonded. 

Every person who walks either upon a public 
highway, or on a village or city street, must travel 
upon a bonded road. 

Every State legislature must sit in a bonded 
State house to make more laws to increase the 
taxes upon the people of each State which is the 
result at the assembling of every State legislature. 

The public, the people, are the creators of all 
these debts and not the corporations. The cor¬ 
porations were compelled to go in debt to do busi¬ 
ness under the laws enacted by the public the 
people. 

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All must admit the facts as they appear by the 
official records kept by the officers of the law en¬ 
acting representatives elected by the people, lo 
keep up this game of high financiering, termed the 
watering of stocks, the officers of this Government 
l ave been hoodwinking the people by the Govern¬ 
ment’s prosecuting officers of some of the railroad 
companies as though they were the only parties 
who had been watering stocks. What has the Con¬ 
gress of the' United States been doing but water¬ 
ing gold coin stock by passing special privilege 
laws, allowing the bankers to issue thousands of 
dollars in promises to pay in gold coin, when the 
Government neither had gold coin nor was the 
gold coin in existence. The Government records 
will show that there is not gold enough in the 
United States now to pay the interest upon the 
gold bonds and mortgages authorized and endorsed 
by Congressional enactment. I here say to the 
people of the United States, by the recorded facts, 
that the wildest scheme of railroad stock watering 
ever entered into by any railroad company is mere 
child’s play as compared to the billions of prom¬ 
ises to pay in gold coin, issued, authorized and en¬ 
dorsed by the different acts of Congress and signed 
by the chief executives of this Nation. 

Do not think that I am in favor of stock wat¬ 
ering of the railroads or any other corporation. 
1 only want to show you that the different govern¬ 
mental acts which are empowered by the people 
through the Constitution of the United States, and 
the different State Constitutions, municipal cor¬ 
porations and other forms of government which 
have issued bonds and mortgages payable in gold 
coin, are the principals and the guilty conspira¬ 
tors in this gold coin stock-watering in stead of 

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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 

the railroad corporations who were only follow¬ 
ing suit in the Enropean-Pagan devil-fish, gold 
gambling schemes, copied from European laws and 
fostered upon the American people through the 
legislative acts of this Government. 

I will say that the Government’s prosecution 
of railroad officials, and the shyster pretending 
appointment of commissions to examine into the 
issuing of watered stocks of the railroad compan¬ 
ies, is nothing but a flim-flam pretense to arouse 
this long smouldering but not extinguished legal 
and legislative conflict which can never settle and 
adjust this all over-powering money question. 
There is not a city in this Nation but what has 
watered the actual values of all property therein 
to three and five times their true value for the 
purpose of increasing the bonded indebtedness on 
said cities and these city bonds are drawn to be 
paid in gold coin when all cities are absolutely 
non-producers of gold or any other products of 
any practical value. Cities are only aggregations 
of peoples who are extensive users and consumers 
of the productions of the producers. 

The railroad managers, owners and operators 
have been duped and then deserted by the non- 
producers and users who were the principal insti¬ 
gators of all this system of stock watering, and 
they have entered into a combination with the 
legislative and administrative office holders, com¬ 
bined with certain gold coin watered promises to 
pay which they can never complete, to destroy all 
railroad stocks regardless of the interest and util¬ 
ity of this all-necessary means of transportation. 

This combination has secured the passage of 
a bastard banking law where by the few who 
have entered into this corporation, are priv- 


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ileged to go and take their watered securities and 
have the Government issue to them more watered 
script to circulate instead of money, which com¬ 
pels the railroad companies and all other business 
undertakings, as producers of cotton, wheat, corn, 
sugar, meats, dairy products, and all the minerals, 
oils and lumber producers, except the isolate and 
insignificant gold mining, to borrow this watering 
combination’s already hundreds of times watered 
scrip, at an exhorbitant rate of interest, to enable 
the railroads to keep their trains moving and’ pay 
running expenses. Think of such a set of govern¬ 
mental officials running a railroad or any other 
productive industries at a less cost than the own¬ 
ers and builders of these industries. It is an as¬ 
sertion without a fact to support or justify the 
conclusions. If the owners and builders of any of 
the different system of constructive industry can¬ 
not successfully operate them it will be useless 
to put them into the hands of inexperienced 
office holders who are and have been governed and 
controlled’ by an irresponsible, non-producing gang 
of gold coin scrip waterers. 

Now, for the final solution of this all- dis¬ 
turbed industrial question. Let there be an agree¬ 
ment entered into between the producers, trans¬ 
porters and consumers who are one in all things. 
There will be only a mere handful of these non- 
producing gold coin watering scrip and stock jub- 
bers left, who will be utterly powerless, they be¬ 
ing only the non-essentials in government. Then 
this will be in fact a people’s government of the 
people, by the people, and for the people. Elect 
to Congress and the Senate of the United States 
only such men and women as will represent the 
people. 


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EMPLOYMENT OF THE MILLIONS 


Then bring the following bill before this le¬ 
gally and’ lawfully constituted Congress: 

To issue not less than two billion ($2,000,000,- 
000) dollars of full legal tender money to relieve 
the stricken and withering industries of this Na¬ 
tion. The first provision must be to furnish em¬ 
ployment to the unemployed by building needed 
improvements. Then loan to the railroad corpor¬ 
ations and all legitimate industries, builders and 
producers direct from the Government. This nat¬ 
ional money at a rate of interest not to exceed 3 
per cent, per annum on long time securities. This 
3 per cent, to be paid into the Treasury of the 
United States and used to pay running expenses 
of the general Government. This will immediately 
bring the greatest prosperity to all the people of 
the United States ever enjoyed by any people upon 
this earth. 

This is the only practical solution of this 
money question. All that has to be done is for the 
railroad owners, builders and operators to take 
the initiative on this basis and 95 per cent, of the 
American people will support and sustain this 
Constitutional procedure who are the legal au¬ 
thors and owners of their own system of govern¬ 
ment and are wholly competent to own and man¬ 
age their own money independent of all the al¬ 
ready debt and bond cursed nations of Europe. 


1 


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The People’s Congress of the 
United States in Session 


The Issuing of $2,000,000,000 of Full Legal Tender 
Money. 

The Employment of Every Unemployed Man and 
Woman in the Nation, Under the Direction of 
Military Regulations. 

Mr. President, and the gentleman Senators 
and Represetnatives of the people of this United 
States of America in joint session assembled, un¬ 
der our Republican form of Government, to hear, 
consider and determine the inherent and inalien¬ 
able right of this American people, to institute, 
provide, establish, make, stamp, coin, print, regis¬ 
ter, account for, pay out and receive back again 
and again, into their own treasuries their legally 
and lawfully decreed money exclusively for this 
entire people from the occupant of the White 
House to the humblest citizen of this Republic, as 
well as the laborer, artisan, merchant, representa¬ 
tive or visiting foreigner, of any and all classified 
governments or organized or unorganized peoples 
upon this whole earth, and whomsoever may come 
within the legal limits of our waters and landed 
domain of our Nation. 

Mr. President,^ this privileged question upon 
which I now speak, in short and simple language, 
means this, # that the people of this United States 
are here in a legally and lawfully constituted gov- 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 


ernment, known, recognized and determined to be 
the Congress of this United States of America by 
their adoption of a Constitution which has dele¬ 
gated to their Congressmen, Senators and Presi¬ 
dent the unrestricted power “to coin money and 
regulate the value thereof.” This power of Con¬ 
gress has never been carried out in full in the in¬ 
terest of all the people, who are the makers, build¬ 
ers, providers, sustainers and defenders of this, 
their constitution. 

Mr. President, every crime commited since the 
moment after the adoption of this Constitution by 
governmental officers, banking corporations, slave 
owning despots, railroad, mineral, fuel and food 
trusts, are directly traceable to our Congressional 
enactments favoring some specially incorporated 
banking trust, with the exclusive privilege of com¬ 
pelling’ the people of this Nation to all pay tribute 
to this always deceptive coin basis myth and 
fraud. 

Mr. President, this is not all, there is yet the 
chief point to be made clear to this Congress which 
is this, that the Government has always been 
through its National privileged office holding fra¬ 
ternity who have been the chief participants in all 
these extortions, bank failures, bankruptcies, pan¬ 
ics, and wars, both civil and foreign, which are 
ad’ only crimes committed through Congressional 
monetary manipulations, always favoring the coin 
basis myth, non-producing few, and against the 
helpless millions of uninformed people in your 
monetary, financial fraud legislation, yet they are 
the producers, builders and sustainers of our nat¬ 
ional life. 

Mr. President, I will here call your attention 
briefly to some of the high crime tragedies which 
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have taken place in my day of personal memory 
which are the assassinations of Presidents Lin¬ 
coln, Garfield and McKinley, each of these deeds 
were committed through and on account of this 
class legislation in favor of the few money manipu¬ 
lators and against the strict mandates of the Con¬ 
stitution which is for all the people, which reads as 
follows: /To coin money and regulate the value 
thereof.” This indictment the people of this nation 
are bringing before this national Congress for its 
final settlement, carries upon the written pages of 
history the rise of the first dynasty of China who 
lost their control of their government by and 
through this same special privileged few at the ex¬ 
pense of the many and still this same battle goes 
on there, in that oldest government by record upon 
the face of the earth. 

Mr. President, these same governmental acts, 
were repeated by the Lost Atlanton office holding 
and ruling power of that long ago sumerged con¬ 
tinent. I now call your attention to the history of 
the centuries of the Egyptian few governmental in¬ 
terest exacting oligarchical despots who held that 
mighty people as their interest-paying slaves until 
that civilization withered in poverty and want, in 
one of the most productive countries the sun ever 
shown upon. Out of this Egyptian wreckage came 
the Jewish civilization with all its wonderful fund 
of facts and figures through tradition. She, like 
all governments preceding her, copied the financial 
system that had been the cause of the overthrow of 
all nations prior to their time and national exist¬ 
ence. They too, with all their religious fervor and 
claims of a chosen people closed out their highest 
attainments by robbing the millions of producers 
and builders through an interest-bearing debt which 


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EMPLOYMENT OP THE MILLIONS 


never was paid, of that all-productive Babylonian 
civilization. Co-existing with Jewish nations was 
that Greek civilization which outshines all others 
in elegance, luster and worth, in their unequalled 
attainments in their philosophy of mental and 
bodily expression, which formed the basis for their 
incalculable achievements in the then unexplored 
fields in science, architecture, oratory, music and 
art. They, too, Mr. President, engrafted into their 
national laws this same interest-bearing bonding 
system in favor of the very few who lawfully and 
legally robbed their producing and consuming mil¬ 
lions just as the United States Congess has been 
doing through a fictitious coin basis for the few, 
to control and absorb through European debt en- 
tailment the productions of this millions of sup¬ 
posedly free Ameircan citizens. 

j Rome was the outgrowth of the Greek and 
Babylonian wreckage, even mlore cosmopolitan 
and energetic than either, or, in fact, all civilization 
preceding them,, copied the Babylonian laws which 
allowed high rates of interest to the few who con¬ 
trolled by law the issue of all the money of the 
ration as well as the exclusive privilege of draw¬ 
ing from 20 per cent, to as high as 60 per cent, in¬ 
terest for the loan of seed grains to the farmers 
in planting season to maturity of the crop. Thus, 
you will learn that the early boasted freedom of 
the people of the Roman Republic was literally 
doomied by this sarnie ever gnawing of interest- 
bearing cancer, mortgage and bonded debt held 
by the few through special privileged law against 
the many who are by this same statute law •com¬ 
pelled to borrow this money of these special priv¬ 
ileged few to pay all their debts and obligations 
of any and all character, in all transactions, in our 


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commercial exchanges. Money was made so 
scarce by the legally constituted owners of it, 
that Rome never was able during the last six hun¬ 
dred years of her national existence to pay any of 
her bonded’ indebtedness,—all she ever could do, 
was to confiscate the products of the producers 
and use them to pay interest upon her accumulated 
debts until the entire productions of that vast em¬ 
pire were levied upon by governmental officials, to 
satisfy the usurers’ special privilege law, in the 
interest of the few who were allowed to control 
the issue of all the money of the Empire. 

History shows that the first bonded debt ever 
put upon the 'City of Rome, which was for the 
building of the Acqueducts, never was paid,—only 
refunded and increased at each new issue, just as 
our present system of debt bonding is carried on 
today in this so-called free government of the 
people of these United States of America. 

Mr. President, I say to you, sir, that it is high 
time that the producers, consumers and transpor¬ 
ters of this Nation be heard in these halls of legis¬ 
lation in their constitutional right to issue, con¬ 
trol, and participate in all the benefits derived 
from all money, first put into circulation among all 
this people, which is the only logical conclusion 
to be reached as the purpose and intent as ex¬ 
pressed in the Constitution which distinctly says 
that Congress shall have the power “To coin money 
and regulate the value thereof.” The acts of Con¬ 
gress are only voicing the decrees of the whole 
people of this Nation. 

I now call the attention of this Congress to 
these stubborn facts as they appear upon the rec¬ 
ords of this nation. That at the inception of our 
National life, that the then acting Congress began 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 


to copy their laws for the issue of money direct 
irom the now debt-cursed nations of Europe, from 
which they had just immigrated or been exiled 
and had ended an eight years of devastating wars, 
under the plea of being taxed with unbearable 
burdens, without representation in the halls of 
legislation. Their plea was sustained and the Col¬ 
onies were free to establish their own independent 
government which they did in all things except to 
issue their own money, this being the highest, most 
necessary and absolutely essential prerogative of 
every independent government. I here make the 
so oft-repeated statement, “That the chief stone 
(money) in the structure of the building (Govern¬ 
ment) was rejected by the builders.” 

Mr. President, this Congress can readily see 
that after nearly a century and a half of our nat¬ 
ional existence, that it is necessary for the preser¬ 
vation of this Republic and its institutions, that 
the people of this Nation shall own, issue, use and 
safeguard all their money of account, and if there 
are to be any benefits derived from loaning of this 
people’s money, that all such receipts from any 
source, shall be recovered into the national treas¬ 
ury and used to pay current expenses of the ad¬ 
ministration of the Nation’s business in all nec¬ 
essary transactions requiring the Government either 
to pay out or receive money. This will be done by 
this people’s Congress who have been searching 
through the multiplicity of rubbish, in the shape 
of enactments and repeals of the many contradic¬ 
tory laws by the different assemblies since the year 
of 1792 to 1915 inclusive, known as the laws of 
the United States on Coinage and the issuing of 
Paper Money. To make clear and conclusive my 
former statement that it was through the con- 
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gressional enactments that laid the foundation for 
all our wars since we became a separate and dis¬ 
tinct Nation, I now proceed to make proof. The 
Civil War was the culmination of a long line of 
laws enacted by different congressional assem¬ 
blies in which the Government of the United 
States was always a partner in the traffic in the 
slave trade and their subjugation, by their Own¬ 
ership, by citizens in the United States that these 
human slaves were compelled to work, for their 
masters, by chattel enacted laws within and upon 
American soil, in and by virtue of the acts of our 
National Congress. Mr. President, this being the 
fact, can you not see how it has been possible for 
Congress after Congress elected by and from this 
same people, to continue to pass such monetary 
legislation as would compel one portion of the citi¬ 
zenship of this Nation to be taxed to support the 
non-producing few under your flim-flam pretext—- 
called a coin basis, for the redemption of a paper 
currency based upon coin that never existed? It 
is as false a statement in true logic as that one 
written in the Jewish Bible which says: 
“Slaves, obey your masters,” this being claimed by 
that slave holding oligarchy which dominated the 
Congress of the United States from 1792 to 1861 
under the same flim-flam pretext that Ezekiel had 
received that all-sweeping statement “Slaves, obey 
your masters” from that Jewish unseen God as a 
divine command. Slavery must be upheld by Con¬ 
gressional enactment, and that the slave owner in 
his divine right by Biblical writ must be sustained 
by the whole people of this Government, and aided 
by this Nation in keeping the slaves subdued, and 
compelled to work for their masters without recom¬ 
pense or hope of reward. That Hoary-Eyed Mon- 


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EMPLOYMENT OF THE MILLIONS 


ster who was reported to have said that kings rule 
by divine right is taken from the same book of leg¬ 
endary laws that Congress has been consulting 
when it passed its diabolical coin basis bonding 
schemes which had stifled and is now throttling 
every industrial enterprise in this Nation. The 
Congress of the United States was in league with 
the non-producing combine of all Europe who for 
all centuries of their national existence have flim- 
flammed the producers and consumers with this 
same illogical and always contradictory coin basis, 
through which the non-producing few have ab¬ 
sorbed the earnings of the hundreds of millions of 
producers in times of peace and in times of war 
have used their producing and consuming millions 
for food for the cannon’s maw. The rich and the 
poor, the priest and the sinner, the believer and the 
unbeliever, the saved and the damned, have and are 
being blotvn into anybody’s and everybody’s eter¬ 
nity by shot and shell paid for from, their own 
earnings, made by their own brain, brawn, muscle 
and energy, then hurried in heaps and gullies and 
burned with the trash of the earth. All for the 
lack of the Government’s issuing a sufficient 
amount of money to keep them employed in build¬ 
ing, and providing for children and families in 
homes of plenty and comfort. 

Oh, how long will this American people look 
on this tragic theater,—traffic and slaughter in hu¬ 
man objectifications, of the priceless brain, flesh 
and bone in body form,, now going on in all Eu¬ 
rope, Asia and Africa, and if you please, at our 
very door, just across the border in creed-taught, 
robbed Mexico are warring bands headed by no¬ 
mad and doomed degenerates, the descendants of 
that once industrious, wealth-producing, home- 
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building and happy Peruvian nation of people 
which sustained a civilization that lasted for over 
a thousand years in an age prior to the founding 
of the Babylonian Empire or the rise and fall of 
the Oreecian and Jewish civilizations and their 
tragic dissolution in socialistic government of im¬ 
practicabilities adopted from the teachings of the 
ancient Chinese which had failed long before the 
appearance of Tayo and the Confucian Sage be¬ 
gan his teaching of the pholosophy of national in¬ 
dustrial development to save the 'wreckage wrought 
through their socialistic teaching in government, 
producing the hordes of idle, roving bands, plund¬ 
ering, debauching and murdering those who were 
then producing and building wherever found. 

The bill I now bring before this people’s Con¬ 
gress for their immediate adoption as their ex¬ 
pressed statutory law, is to expressly provide for 
the employment of every unemployed man, woman 
and child "who now resides under the protection 
of the flag of our'Nation, at a reasonable wage 
compensation. To employ this vast army of the 
unemployed as now reckoned from three to four 
million of human citizens and producers, I here¬ 
with present this bill which provides for the im¬ 
mediate issue of $2,000,000,000 of full legal tender 
paper money, which will be in excess of all other 
money now circulating or held as reserves through¬ 
out all this Nation. The issuing of this money is 
not for donations or charity either. The unem¬ 
ployed as a reasoning citizenship, are not asking 
for charity; they are only asking for that inherent 
light which the founders of this Republic set forth 
in their declaration of purposes which reads as fol¬ 
lows: “That all men, women and children, are 
created free and equal with certain inalienable 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OP PROSPERITY 


rights among which are Life, Liberty and the Pur¬ 
suit of Happiness.” No people upon the face of 
this whole earth have ever been so truly and sin¬ 
cerely law obeying as the people of the United 
States of America, and none have ever equalled 
them ih their power to produce. And all that this 
bill carries with it, is the issuing of the money to 
pay for labor when performed. This bill now be* 
ing made the law of the land, I now offer the sec¬ 
ond bill and ask its immediate passage by this 
Congress of the people, which provides for the im¬ 
provement of the entire Mississippi River and all 
tributary rivers and streams flowing into it from 
both East and West from the Dominion of Canada 
on the North to the Gulf of Mexico on the South. 


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Improvement of the Mississippi 
River 


The provisions in this bill provide for the 
deepening and straightening of the channel of the 
Mississippi River to prohibit the overflow of its 
waters, and the drainage of millions of acres of 
land now under water by the accumulations of 
silt and sand in the beds of these streams. This 
bill further provides for the construction of stor¬ 
age basins or lakes in a systematic chain from the 
Dakotas on the North, through Iowa, Nebraska, 
Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas 
and Texas, and all lands East from the Rocky 
Mountains drained through the Mississippi River 
and its tributaries; and a like provision will be 
made for all the overflow waters of all rivers and 
streams flowing into the Mississippi River from the 
East through Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, 
Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, 
Mississippi and Louisiana, and all lands drained 
through the Mississippi River from the East and 
its tributaries. 

This bill will provide for the employment un¬ 
der the supervision of the United States of a num¬ 
ber of corps of the practical and most competent 
engineers and surveyors the United States or any 
other government has ever employed, to prepare 
plans, specifications and construct this most gigan¬ 
tic wealth producing system of National drainage, 
transportation canals, storage of overflow waters 
and electric power development. 

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employment oe the millions 


• Mr. President, it is the intent, purpose and 
the direct object of this bill to provide for the 
legitimate, profitable and productive employment 
of as many able-bodied men and a like number of 
women to build up this Nation and beautify it, as 
Germany, France and England combined have now 
arrayed in deadly conflict to murder one another 
and destroy the already accumulated 'wealth suf¬ 
ficient to enable every inhabitant of all these nat¬ 
ions who are homeless and in want through gov¬ 
ernmental direction, to produce, build, own and 
maintain their own homes in these respective nat- 
tions. 

I now speak for the people of this United 
States and voice the openly avowed expression of 
every business man and woman of this entire Re¬ 
public when I say, It is American to provide the 
ways and means for the legitimate, profitable and 
productive employment of all the people of this 
nation. And our surest and only impregnable de¬ 
fense now and for all time to come is in our al¬ 
ways being provided with an ever-increasing, grow¬ 
ing and expanding industrial and commercial de¬ 
velopment. This can only be accomplished by this 
Government providing its own money as a medium 
of exchange without bonds and without interest 
from this people. This money once being earned 
through labor performed or by the furnishing of 
materials, goods, wares or commodities of any 
name or nature, belongs to the whole people by 
right of purchase and delivery for value received, 
which is the law of just compensation, and must 
ever remain in their hand's or accessible for the 
sole, legitimate and only use for which money was 
called into existence or can be used. Money has 
but one office, one power and one authority—that 


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is its legal or lawful power to pay debt after the* 
contract has been agreed to, by delivery and re¬ 
ceipt. The results to be obtained and the benefits 
to be received from the performance of the work 
to be provided when this bill is enacted and be¬ 
comes a statutory decree of the Congress of the 
United States, are manifold. 

It will provide for a ship canal from the Lakes 
on the North to the Gulf of Mexico on the South, 
near midway between the Atlantic and Pacific 
Oceans where sea-going vessels can load and un¬ 
load, in this most productive soil of this Nation; 
and where will be more than 200,000,000 of people 
resident home-owners, producing an abundance of 
all the necessaries of life, and a surplus to provide 
for ( a hundred million more people for export which 
will furnish us all the luxuries gro'wn in other cli¬ 
mates and countries sufficient to supply every in¬ 
habitant with every luxury and’ comfort that this 
people may wish or desire. It will make the chan¬ 
nel of the great Mississippi River far more val¬ 
uable for practical use to the people of this en¬ 
tire Nation than either their so valuable coast 
frontage on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans which 
are actual wealth to this commercial people of a 
far greater value than is posesssed by any other 
nation today upon the face of-the earth. 

The building of this new deep waterway 
through the entire length of the United States 
from North to South within the inside of our own 
National domain will be a greater National de¬ 
fense for the United States of America than to 
own a fleet of warships equal to the combined fleet 
now possessed by England and Germany, in addi¬ 
tion to what we already possess. 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 


Besides the now idle and nnnsed rich and pro¬ 
ductive lands which will be added to the Nation’s 
productive resources will be greater by far than 
that now owned by France and Germany com¬ 
bined. 

The electric power which will be developed as 
the natural results of this vast improvement will 
furnish a manufacturing power far in excess of 
that now used by all Germany and at half the cost 
of the power used in that so successful nation in 
her manufacturing industries. No nation upon the 
earth would or could have anything to say but 
words of commendation and cheer. Our intelli¬ 
gent, progressive and most friendly neighbor, Can¬ 
ada, on the North, could only send us the most 
cordial and friendly greetings as every stroke made 
and every shovel of earth removed for deeping the 
rivers’ channels would add to the values of their 
vast wheat area of land midway between the two 
great oceans, who can secure passage for their 
export wheat and other products to be loaded on 
ocean going ships at their border which would al¬ 
most float with their own weight to the Gulf of 
Mexico. This nation will then become the produc¬ 
ing,'- manufacturing and exporting nation for the 
world. We have the raw material and we would be 
able to convert our own products into marketable 
wares at less expense than any other people upon 
the earth. We possess all the material necessary 
for supplying every want in making all this im¬ 
provement, and our ability to do it will never be 
questioned. 

It would require the continuous employment 
for many years of not less than 50,000 men to man¬ 
ufacture the concrete to be used and 150,000 men 
to excavate and cement the basins and channels 


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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 

through which the water is to be controlled. The 
iron and steel required for the reinforcing of all 
bridges, culverts, siphon conducts over elevations, 
under streams or through tunnels, would require 
the labor of 50,000 men, and another 50,000 men in 
the mining and transporting of the ores from the 
mines to the blasting, refining and' rolling mills, 
and thence to places where they are to be used. 
Preceding all these will be 50,000 men, grading 
and paving highways of the most permanent and 
durable material known to the science of road¬ 
building, over which this material will be trans¬ 
ported. It would require the doubling of all the 
capacity of all railroad facilities now constructed 
and in operation in the entire Mississippi Valley 
basin within less than two years from the passage 
of this bill, and all continental railroad lines cross¬ 
ing the Mississippi Valley or extending to the 
Mississippi River from East or West would be com¬ 
pelled to double track every road now in operation 
to accommodate the increased business that would 
be required of them. 

The constructive work for storage basins and 
lakes would begin in the North providing for all 
overflow waters of all streams which feed the Miss¬ 
issippi River, conducting it South and West 
through the arid lands of Nebraska, Colorado, Kan¬ 
sas, Oklahoma and Texas, and all streams froip the 
East as the Illinois, Wabash, and Ohio, the waters 
of these streams not required for use on the East¬ 
ern slope of the Mississippi Valley will be con¬ 
ducted over the channel of the Mississippi River 
to the West Side, where every cubic foot of over¬ 
flow water will be used for manufacturing and ir¬ 
rigating purposes. 




EMPLOYMENT OF THE MILLIONS 


Immediately following the completion of the 
first storage basins, ’vtould be inaugurated a system 
of Intense Farming which would require the labor 
of from 500 to 1,000 where one person is now em¬ 
ployed in all this vast country from the Dakotas 
through to Northern, Central and Western Texas 
to the Gulf. This would quadruple our present 
corn production, treble our present wheat, oats 
and rye production in these States. It would in¬ 
crease the sugar-beet industry a thousand-fold’. It 
would increase the cotton to five times its present 
capacity. It would extend the sugar cane planta¬ 
tions to ten times their present production. It 
would increase the rice production to twenty times 
its present out-put. It would make practically a 
new industry, that of growing of peaean nuts, one 
of the most nourishing foods for man grown in 
America which would furnish employment for 
thousands of people in growing, harvesting and 
marketing, which would add millions of dollars of 
wealth to that vast stretch of country in which 
they can profitably be grown, Texas leading all 
other States. 

These different industries which I have just 
mentioned are only some of the leading profitable 
productions. Many more of equal importance, 
such as fruits, dairying, vegetable gardening, stock- 
raising, would all increase in the same proportion 
i have given to the cereals, and noKv follows the 
climax for employment of labor, which would be 
the manufacturing. All our cotton can be manu¬ 
factured at home, and much of it within sight of 
the fields in which it is grown and picked. All 
our sugar can be manufactured at home by our 
own citizenship, which would supply every- pound 
that will be needed for all our people and an ex- 


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cess to be exported to other^ countries, and this 
system of electrical power development could be 
made so reasonable in actual cost that the manu¬ 
facturing of glass will become one of the leading 
industries of this American people, for we have 
the material. We will produce the power, all that 
is needed, is to have the waterpower harnessed and 
controlled in the North, which could be used over 
again and again as it flows South on its way to the 
Gulf, adding to its wealth producing capacity in an 
increasing ration to such a degree as to make the 
actual cost of power to the whole of manufactur¬ 
ing and irrigation free to the consumers of it. 
The abundance in the ever continuous supply 
of all the necessaries for the life, comfort and hap¬ 
piness of all our people, that the cost of living 
would be reduced to the minimum. 

The one industry of the manufacturing of 
glass for building purposes alone would be an 
ever-increasing ,wealth producing production that 
would keep thousands of our citizens continually 
employed in this industry. Think of the idea of 
this great people of the United States with all we 
possess and know, to be dependent upon Germany 
or any other nation for to supply us with this most 
necessary staple building material, or any other 
product, when we have the raw material already 
at hand by shaping, separating, reducing, weaving 
and manufacturing into foods and things of utility 
The building material of this new civilization will 
be concrete, steel and glass, for permanency, dur¬ 
ability and surety to business, health and life. The 
production of glass at a reasonable cost which can 
be made cheaper than wood, brick or stone would 
usher in a new power for the supplying of vege¬ 
table and cirtous foods at prices within the reach 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 

of all people, by such an increase of greenhouse 
gardening that want of food for the sustenance, 
comfort and happiness of man would never come 
to the people of this Republic. 

This bill will provide for the control of this 
construction to be under the strict army regula¬ 
tions, and that the skill and efficiency of the en¬ 
gineering department of the war department be 
used in all this so vast field of development work. 

The regulations made and enforced by gov¬ 
ernment authority will not allow any resorts for 
lounging in idlesness of either men or women 
who drink to drunkenness, debauching both mind 
and body which incapacitates them for efficiency in 
any vocation in which they may pretend to pursue. 

Instead of the usual unwholesome places for 
resorts, that there be permitted and encouraged a 
practical and thorough system of education (night 
courses where men and women may attend as well 
as children) that will be scientific, wholesome and 
practical aids in the many different lines of work 
carried on by them as builders of this entire sys¬ 
tem, as well as a complete scientific training in 
scientific and demonstrable values to accrue to all 
by a thorough understanding of Intense Farming 
and the sure rewards to those men and women 
who engage in this most independent and lasting 
industry. I would further permit and encourage 
those competent to build entertainment halls and 
theaters for entertainments, recreation and amuse¬ 
ment. And that there be a systematic arrangement 
by the engineers in charge to lay out parks, drive 
ways, lawns and playgrounds for the people around 
or adjoining each storage basin or lake connecting 
them with the leading public highways, 


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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 

Mr. President, these provisions being carried 
out, would relieve the over-crowded and densely 
populated districts in many of our large cities, 
which are inhabited by many idle, profligate peo¬ 
ple who are a charge upon cities, societies, coun¬ 
ties and States at a constantly increasing taxation 
of the people who are by law compelled to provide 
for their maintenance. 

There will be a provision in this bill that all 
citizens and peoples residing in the United States 
who are not self-supporting must find employment 
elsewhere or willingly go to work upon these na¬ 
tional improvements or be drafted into this service 
of the Nation, and that all begging, by individuals, 
tor themselves or by friends, relatives or societies 
be strictly prohibited by law and enforced. The 
wages to be paid, in all departments to be fixed at 
a reasonable wage compensation and that no ex¬ 
cessive wages be paid in any department of this 
constructive work, and that all awards that are 
made in any department by increase of wages for 
efficiensy in earning capacity, must be kept 
slightly below the ruling wages paid through¬ 
out the Nation for like or similar employment. So 
that when the labor of the United States is all 
employed and the Government is in need of more 
laborers at Government wage scales, that the 
emigration embargo be raised admitting enough 
foreign laborers to supply the requirements to 
prosecute the work to be done, and no more. This 
will regulate the supply and demand for all de¬ 
partments of industry throughout the entire Nation 
and will completely do away with this so long- 
drawn-out contentions and claims of underpaid la¬ 
bor and vice verce. 


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EMPLOYMENT OF THE MILLIONS 


The law that is the m(ost just and beneficial 
to both employee and employer is a reasonable 
wage and continuous employment, instead of ex¬ 
orbitant wages for a few and no employment for 
the many. 

It is the purpose of all the provisions of this 
enactment to so direct the employment of unem¬ 
ployed labor to prepare all laborers in the Nation 
tc become self-sustaining and be able to do busi¬ 
ness for themselves as fast as possible, so as to 
better provide for their own individual homes 
which will make them independent and give room 
for others less able to provide labor or direct a 
business of their own. The home conditions, sur¬ 
roundings and influences of all men and women 
while in the employ of the Government should be 
strictly business, in all things that would be con¬ 
ducive to a better citizenship, individual home 
builders and owners, which will surely fit the Na¬ 
tion’s citizenship to direct the affairs of the Nation 
in the interest of the whole people of the Nation; 
in all things that will aid in bringing about such 
conditions as will produce a greater amount of 
wealth, health and ‘happiness for each and every 
individual and the whole people of this Republic. 


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Coa£ Patrol by Warships 


I would maintain all the warships we now have 
and add more possessing every improvement as 
they are invented and tested, and keep every ship 
in readiness for active coast patrol for our com¬ 
mercial and National safety to our ever-increasing 
export and import exchanges. This will be neces¬ 
sary at least until we have paid all our legally con¬ 
tracted debts which have been sold to and pur¬ 
chased by foreign corporations and citizens of for¬ 
eign nations with the direct and implied endorse¬ 
ment and surety through out national Congres¬ 
sional enactments providing through statutory law 
that all these debts will be paid in gold coin, which 
now amounts to many billions of dollars, all inter¬ 
est bearing and payable in like gold coin, a metal, 
which the Nation and each and every citizen and 
organization all together within this Nation did 
not possess then nor now. "Were it possible for the 
Government to collect every pennyweight of gold 
in this entire Nation now, it all being totaled, would 
not pay one year’s interest on the bonded and 
mortgaged indebtedness of the American people of 
the United States now in the hands of the second 
and third party, without a word of protest from 
the Congress of this Nation that this unheard’ of 
in all the history of nations of over inflation of 
debts transferable into the possession of a second 
party in good faith for a valuable consideration 
holds this Nation, the people, as a whole for the 
payment of all these debts as stipulated and set 
forth in every mortgage and bond contract now 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 


owned by an undisputed title by people who are 
not citizens of this Nation. 

Any one of these foreign nations whose citizens 
now hold indebtedness against the United States 
or any of its subdivisions or citizens thereof; or all 
of them could form an alliance and demand pay¬ 
ment of all these debts and a failure of nur govern¬ 
ment to comply with their demand, could entirely 
blockade every port in our Nation, then take pos¬ 
session of the revenues until such time as all these 
debts were paid, which never could be paid under 
our present Congressional enactments from the 
supply of gold now in existence or in any future 
supply by any suppositional speculative reckon¬ 
ing, under all present processes for producing gold 
metal which they must have before gold can be¬ 
come coined into money. The bonds and mort¬ 
gages now owned by foreigners are against corpor¬ 
ations of many names and character, including 
school bonds and mortgages, municipalities, coun¬ 
ties, States, and our National government. 

I have here just stated the accepted and many 
times enforced international law procedure for the 
collecting of debts by a Nation on its citizens 
failing to pay to another Nation or its citizens 
the money as specified in the contract. 

Mr. President, it is now an opportune moment 
for this people’s congress to at once provide a 
money system of their own. First, for the reason 
that our Nation as a people are in an absolute want 
of money to pay our current expenses, and that 
the Nations of Europe who have heretofore been 
purchasing our securities are as deeply engulfed 
in debts as we are and some of them more in need 
of current money than we are, which heretofore 
were ; seeking our securities for investment, are 


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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


now not able to purchase any more bonds or mort¬ 
gages, but have demanded that our Government 
pay back to their people hundreds of millions of 
dollars in gold coin, for securities held against the 
people of the United States, which our Government 
was utterly unable to pay and the only way that 
our Nation could for the time being avert the most 
disastrous finacial panic ever brought upon this 
Republic, was for our Government to close the 
New York Stock Exchange and prevail on England 
to close her exchange in London to save the bank¬ 
ruptcy of the Nations of the world. Every nation 
in Europe is on the inevitable brink of a financial 
gold coin bankruptcy, and should their war not 
close soon, the United States will again be de¬ 
manded to furnish the gold coin which is utterly 
impossible, which will then draw us into this whirl¬ 
pool of debt devoured nations from which we have 
no escape, under the present financial system and 
laws regulating the issuing of money now upon our 
statute books, and second, with all these facts and 
the law before us and the so long a trial without 
opposition of all nations upon the face of the earth 
which has lasted for more than five centuries in 
continuous succession, and at all stages and' periods 
during all these centuries, gold coin never was 
in sufficient quantities to keep any one Nation out 
of debt during times of peace and has always fail¬ 
ed the people and Governments to furnish the 
means to supply the people or government to de¬ 
fend themiselves in times of war, therefore our only 
alternative and means of solvency for our nation 
and the people is to immediately issue our own 
money sufficient to put into full operation every 
industry and productive resource of this our al¬ 
ready the greatest aggregated accumulation of 


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EMPLOYMENT OF THE MILLIONS 


wealth of any single nation on the earth and with 
an unlimited supply from which to draw all things 
now needed by these stricken nations to which we 
are indebted, who will accept products for the gold 
coin in satisfaction which we have not, neither can 
we produce for them, in their now dire distress to 
preserve their national existence. 


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Financial Centers of the World 
Will Be Chicago and 
New Orleans 


Mr. President, by the passage of the laws I 
have in these pages described and explianed will 
make ample provision by and through a proper ap¬ 
plication to enable the people of these United 
States of America to discharge and pay every 
debt .they now owe to all foreign people, without 
ever issuing another bond to be sold to any one 
outside of our own people, by paying each sepa¬ 
rate obligation before or at the time of its ma¬ 
turity. And at the end of the next thirty years 
the great Mississippi River Valley and’ Gulf of 
Mexico regions can be easily reckoned on being 
amply able to provide for a population of 100,000,- 
000 of industrious, healthy, wealthy, happy, home¬ 
owning and self-sustaining American citizens. 
While the Atlantic and Pacific states, with the 
inter-mountain States with their plains and val¬ 
leys, having received their full share of improve¬ 
ments as has been outlined for the Mississippi Val¬ 
ley regions, will be amply able to support and care 
for a like population of 100,000,000 resident, home¬ 
owning American citizens, and the Nation and her 
entire people out of debt. 

And, by the passage of the law exempting 
from all taxation the resident home of every moth¬ 
er who has borne a child or children as iong as she 
holds the title in her own name and resides thereon, 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 


will place the United States of America in the 
front rank of all governments that ever floated a 
flag proclaiming its achievements for the upbuilding 
of the human race. This will usher in the so long 
hoped for age of industrial peace, national effi¬ 
ciency, making it possible for the establishing of a 
sure and safe international adjustment of all dif¬ 
ferences so as to establish the peace of the whole 
world, 

No one ever objects to the thing they under¬ 
stand, is a truism and a fact. The first objection 
that has been offered is that it will make Chicago 
and New Orleans the two leading cities in the Nat- 
tion, and St. Louis the third, St. Paul, Minnesota, 
and' Houston, Texas, fourth in importance, with 
Omaha, Nebraska, Peoria, Illinois, Kansas City, Mo., 
Memphis, Tennessee, San Antonio, Texas, in the 
fifth, with a city in Wisconsin, one in Iowa, which 
has the location for a commercial city containing a 
population numbering to the hundreds of thou¬ 
sands. This improvement will necessitate the 
building of many more large and prosperous cities 
throughout all these States, the dense population 
will converge at the centers of trade and com¬ 
merce and the financial center of the world will be 
directed from Chicago and New Orleans. New 
York City will remain the metropolis of the East 
Atlantic States and the financial center with an 
increasing importance, and all other cities on the 
East Atlantic growing and expanding in equal 
proportion to accommodate the demands of an 
ever-increasing business and population. 

The Pacific States and Inter-Mountain States 
are just beginning on their most wonderful career 
of permanent development which will have no lim¬ 
its for the coming century. The commercial cen- 

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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


ters of the North Pacific will be Seattle, Washing¬ 
ton, leading as the financial center, Portland, Ore¬ 
gon, second. San Francisco for Northern Califor¬ 
nia, Los Angeles for Southern California, and 
with SanDiego holding an important place in 
the export and import commercial world. The 
greatest centers of the new civilization will be 
where farming, manufacturing and shipping con¬ 
verges at the least expense to the three so-called 
factors entering into all commercial life, which are 
the producers, transporters and consumers. So 
that the logical conclusion will be conceded with¬ 
out debate or further waiting to improve the bed 
of the Mississipi River by extending it to Chicago, 
connecting it with the Great Lakes on the North 
with its branch to St. Paul, and deepening its chan¬ 
nel at New Orleans from 16 to 25 feet, will form 
this Nation’s chief, most profitable and lasting 
improvement and development ever consummated 
by any people ever upon the earth. 

Mr. President, in this review of the only prac¬ 
tical solution yet offered to adequately provide 
for the employment of all the unemployed of this 
Nation for the coming centuries, I ask you to com¬ 
pare the provisions herein outlined to those rules 
and methods which Cheops invoked when he 
drafted 100,000 men of the unemployed of that 
age, then worked them under the lash for 
thirty years to build the first Pyramid of Egypt, 
without pay and when one division of laborers 
were worn out from the excessive toil, another 
crew was drafted and ready to take their places. 
Is not that what the nations of earth are doing 
in war today? The building of the great Chinese 
Wall around China, the construction of the Jew¬ 
ish Temples, and the building of the Floating Gar- 


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EMPLOYMENT^ OF THE MILLIONS 

dens and the Hanging Walls of Babylon were all 
performed by drafted and unpaid laborers, and 
all these toilers were the sons of homeless moth¬ 
ers in all these nations. 

The rules of war today are the same rules es¬ 
tablished by the savage tribes of the early primi¬ 
tive man, that is: they are fighting without a com¬ 
pensation or any hope of reward. All nations 
have destroyed in battle their homes, no differ¬ 
ence what has been their form of government or 
their religious beliefs and teachings. Mr. Presi¬ 
dent, are we in this so progressive Republic of 
the twentieth century to wind up our Nation thus 
with so many promising and assuring declarations, 
that freedom would be established and maintained 
on this American continent where all men and 
women were to be forever free to think, to talk, 
to teach, to write and to publish, their ideas and 
reside in their own homes in absolute security by 
this government, for all the ages to come. To ac¬ 
complish this is the desire of us all. The passage 
of these bills will insure the fulfilling of the words 
of the declaration of freedom. Let us pass these 
bills unnanimously and return to our home build¬ 
ing with the assurance of our government through 
this Congress that there shall be employment pro¬ 
vided for all our people who are desirous of our 
national perpetuity, knowing as we all do that we 
now have room for millions more and by the pro¬ 
visions of these bills we as a nation will make room 
for hundreds of millions more, who are now knock¬ 
ing continually at our doors, pleadingly asking to 
be admitted into our union of homes and national 
freedom. Statesmen, philanthropists, rulers and of¬ 
ficers of this Government, let us all think only those 
thoughts that will build this Nation into a reality 
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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


in the one unfailing realization that when our peo¬ 
ple are the possessors of their own homes, forever 
free from all taxations, that the combined world, of 
Europe, Asia and Africa, would never think of 
attempting to dislodge such a fortified people as 
we will then be, but would be comjing under a flag 
of truce, bearing the olive branch of endearing 
and lasting peace, to learn of our triumphs and 
achievements of the freedom, of the mother and 
child and their absolute security in their own 
homes in this land of plenty for all and yet to 
spare, 


I am Convinced these bills are passed, 

The wires are touched, this nations lasts. 

The North, the South, the East, the West has 
grasped, 

This industrious move the world’ attracts. 

America leads in home, country and worth, 
Europe will follow from cruelty, war and dearth. 
Mother and child are the nation at last. 

The humming of industries pervide every class. 
This building goes on, and on ;■ eternity never ends. 


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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 


I have secured the right to publish the following 
poem by Dr. Frank L. Hanson, Bryn Mawr, Washing¬ 
ton: 


THE OPTIMIST. 


Of all the beings that exist, 

I’d rather be an optimist; 

Then, I could sing or dance or smile 

An’ Life would be well worth th’ while; 

The grouch and gloofmi would disappear 
And jolly friends would gather near 
To listen to my tales and songs 

Relating Rights instead of wrongs. 

My looks and acts would indicate 
That I was in a Happy state— 

The corners of my mouth would be 

Turned up, not down, like those you see, 
For I could see the “sunny side” 

No matter how much storm or tide, 

And if I happened to get “broke” 

Life would still be just a joke. 

If sorrow came and rang the bell. 

I’d say: Old man—what-the-’ell 
You doin’ ’round here on this street? 

Skidoo, old guy, beat a retreat! 

My cheerful ways and pleasant smiles 
Would radiate for miles and miles, 

And thus—I’d help the world along 

For I could laugh when things went wrong. 

I’d look for Mirth; I’d never go 
To church or to a glodmy show, 

For thoughts and acts and scenes like these 
Make pessimists and breed dis-ease. 

My Health would be “a-number-one; ” 

My greatest object—lots of fun, 

And prospects for Success would be 
Far greater than the grouchy “gee.” 

I’d never need to make amends; 

I’d have no foes, we’d all be friends 
For I’d have brains enough to see 
That we were all one family. 

If I wrote books, ’twould be “Real Dope” 

On How to Live, in Health and Hope; 

I’d talk and write and spread GLAD NEWS 
Instead of old disgruntled views. 


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ONLY THE OPTIMIST WINS 


A School For Anyone Who Wants 
to Study 

The Mental Science College, Inc., at Bryn Mawr, 
King County, Washington, U. S. A. Term opens an¬ 
nually June 28th. On and after June 2 8, 1915, stu¬ 
dents can enter this college at any time of the year 
and take any study they may select to pursue, without 
examination. They can take one, two or more studies. 
The college will be open thie entire year. There are 
day and evening classes in the regular college work. 
Any person is eligible to enter this College who desires 
to study and learn. We have no time or roomi for 
drones or idlers. Children can be entered in the pri¬ 
mary classes at the race age of six years. Younger 
children by special arrangements. 

In the regular College work boys and girls can 
enroll at any age they are able to take the work and 
can graduate when they have completed their course 
regardless of their age. Men and women can enter at 
any time of the year and take the regular course of 
study or select their own studies. 

Teachers will be provided for private lesson 
courses. Mothers are here to teach their daughters and 
sons the practical things of use to them in every-day 
life work. Men are here to teach only the practical 
things in law, business, government, medicine, doctor¬ 
ing, treating, healing, and all things that have been 
kept hid from the boy and girl, mian and woman, 
though the special priviliged few, by the passage of 
class laws, to prevent the people from becoming in¬ 
formed upon all questions that actually enter into the 
very living of the people composing the millions who 
have been upon this earth for the untold ages that have 
come and gone. 

Our College grounds are the choicest for health, 
convenience, permanence of beauty in all its surround¬ 
ings, located upon Lake Washington, one of the finest 
bodies of fresh water in the world, soon to be con¬ 
nected by Government Canal with Puget Sound where 
the ships from all parts of the world can come and 
load and unload their cargo. 

The College is in the midst of the native beauty 
of this evergreen state, where, grass, trees, plants and 
many vegetables, grow the year around The soil is 
productive, and responds to the intelligence of the 
thinking men and women who are here to learn how to 
live, how to be healthy and how to make a success in 
life. The snow-capped mountains in the distance sur¬ 
round this College of the Occident, the year around. 
We have the finest of pure, fresh water froip springs 
piped into our homes and the College campus. We 


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have now a brick and concrete paved boulevard run¬ 
ning through the College lands, from the City of Seattle 
to Renton, which is connected with the Pacific High¬ 
way which, when completed, will extend from Canada 
on the North to Mexico on our South. We have an 
electric car street railroad which passes through the 
College grounds from Seattle to Renton every forty 
minutes, with numerous jitney busses and automobiles 
continually passing our doors. We have room here to 
provide for the accommodations of 5,000 students. 
Many more teachers are wanted here at the College and 
hundreds more will be required for other schools and 
branches that are being organized and are yet to be 
established and provided for. In the months of July 
and August each year is held a regular teachers’, heal¬ 
ers,’ lecturers’ and organizers’ course of school train¬ 
ing, where teachers can be drilled for this most prac¬ 
tical course of instruction. Herb is an opportunity 
never before offered to any sincere and reasoning wo¬ 
man or man to prepare themselves so as to be efficient 
members of a legislative body either in a State or in 
the Halls of Congress. A class will be opened on June 
2 8, 1915, to study how to legislate. New conditions 
calls for greater efficiency. There are many men and 
women, who would be a success as a legislator, did 
they but understand how to present their thoughts in 
an intelligent and comprehensive language in legal 
form. 

COLLEGE CURRICULUM FOR THE REGULAR 
THREE YEARS. 

Mental Developiment, Physiology, Hygiene, Anat¬ 
omy, Mathemtics, Common Law, Commercial Law, Busi¬ 
ness Training, English Language, Food Chemistry, 
Phrenology, Physical Culture, Music, Literature, Eth¬ 
nology, Anthropology, Psychology, Botany, Construc¬ 
tion, Drawing, Mental Healing and Mental Chemistry. 

A fourth year term is added to these, who want 
to take it, as follows: 

Monism, Sex, Practical Law, Mental Chelmitsry, Al¬ 
chemy, Food Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, Toxicol¬ 
ogy, Osteopathy, Chiropractic, Bacteriology, Gynecol¬ 
ogy, Obstetrics, Histology, Hygiene, Pathology, General 
Diagnosis and Mental Healing, and any other system in 
Drugless Healing. 

A diploma is issued to each student on complet¬ 
ing the studies of the regluar three-year course, and 
the four-year course, also a diploma will be given to 
those who select their own course of study in the 
branches they have studied and completed then, the 
diplomas will recite their studies and length of time 
spent in the College work. 

Students coming to the College who have com¬ 
pleted any of their branches in other colleges or schools 

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will be given credit by examination and passed when 
cjuilified without requiring them to stay in the Mental 
Science College a certain number of years to meet some 
special class law requirement of some traditional, non- 
essential formula which has been tacked on to the tail 
end of the Imedical, theological, law and many other 
colleges for the purpose of keeping a corner on all the 
professional pursuits throughout the civilized world. 

To do this work, we here recite, we have the full 
authority by the Constitution of the United States and 
its protection to secure us in these, our undisputed 
right to carry them out. Our College is fully recog¬ 
nized by the laws of the State of Washington and every 
State in this Union. 

We are now in need of more efficient men and wo¬ 
men in this unlimited field of opportunities and add the 
following: 

WANTED—A general superintendent, who has had 
experience, or will learn, to be an organizer of branch 
schools and colleges, throughout the United States and 
other countries. One with means to take this posi¬ 
tion will have a life work. 

WANTED—Teachers to organize branch schools 
and take full charge of the work in your city or town. 

WANTED—A most thorough and practical teacher 
for the business college department, who can superin¬ 
tend the dining halls and gardens, to supply vegetables 
and small fruits exclusively for the dining halls. A 
woman or man with means to become financially in¬ 
terested will have a life position. 

WANTED—A woman who is qualified or will 
qualify to take charge of and teach journalism and 
take charge of the College Journal, a permanent posi¬ 
tion awaits the woman who will fill this position. 

WANTED—Live agents to sell these books and 
lessons and enroll students anywhere and in separate 
studies or class enrollment. 


Printed Healing Lessons. 

B y Dr. Melvina Hanson 

Fifteen lessons in one volume. 
Five Dollars for the course. 

Address, Bryn Mawr, King Co., 
Washington. 



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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROSPERITY 


HEALTH AND SUCCESS. 

All who desire to possess and realize HEALTH 
and SUCCESS, read and study the following 
BOOKS AND LESSONS 

By Prof. M. F. Knox, M. S. D., Founder and President 
of the Mental Science College, Bryn Mawr, Wash. 

WOMAN BEAUTIFUL—Which teaches woman how 
to cure all disorders peculiar to her sex. Beauty fades 
only in disease. Beauty is possessed only by the heal¬ 
thy. Send for this lesson; and be HEALTHY and 
BEAUTIFUL. Price, $1. 

PERFECT MANHOOD—Hundreds of men and boys 
have been restored to health by studying this invaluable 
lesson. Send for it, and be Vigorous and HEALTHY. 
Price, $1. 

“I SUCCEED, YOU CAN”—Read it. A book of 
120 pages. This book contains all the principles re¬ 
quired to make a SUCCESS. Its title is suggestive of 
its contents. Price, 50 cents. 

CORRESPONDENCE COURSE — FIFTY 7 PRINTED 
LESSONS, which give full instructions—HOW TO 
HEAL, HOW TO TEACH “HEALING AND HOW TO 
SUCCEED IN BUSINESS. The student who does not 
find it convenient to attend the College can study these 
lessons at home. Becotme a HEALER and TEACHER 
and have a business of your own. This course is $15, 
and can be procured on the installment plan. Send $1 
and get the first lesson, and at once begin the STUDlt 
OF YOURSELF. 


To keep informed on what is going on at the Men¬ 
tal Science College, at Bryn Mawr, Washington, U. S. 
A., subscribe for True Word, a monthly paper, pub¬ 
lished at 50 cents per year in the United States and 
Canada; 75 cents per year in all foreign countries. 



For further information and 
full particulars, address DR. 

Nettie E. Knowles, m. s. d. 

Secretary of the Mental Science 
College, Inc., 

Bryn Mawr, King County, 
State of Washington, U. S. A. 


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